> The ones asking for a credit card will drop in ratings and search results. Ratings and general search are already useless in appstores, dominated by apps fil

> The ones asking for a credit card will drop in ratings and search results. Ratings and general search are already useless in appstores, dominated by apps filled with pay2win dark patterns and optimized/gamed to be higher in ratings. The times where you could go to top games section and find a genuine good app are over more than a decade ago. So you can find the app you need only be it's exact name or via link from external source. So now appstore is nothing more than a very restrictive guardian/censor. No value lost.