Even via steam you still need to buy an apple dev license and sign it. If apple could get away with it, they would stop any app sourcing outside of the app stor

Even via steam you still need to buy an apple dev license and sign it. If apple could get away with it, they would stop any app sourcing outside of the app store. They've made pushes in Ventura to make any non-signed executable not work out of the box. Nothing about apples behavior is "win win". They're a corp that benefits from special protections against both civil and criminal liabilities as well as benefitting from masses of intellectual property. It's not some sort of balanced game, the scales were tipped completely into corpo land since early 2000s