They quite literally justify the lack of sideloading and the 30% cut by saying that they provide you actual human services like review. "The guiding principle

They quite literally justify the lack of sideloading and the 30% cut by saying that they provide you actual human services like review. "The guiding principle of the App Store is simple—we want to provide a safe experience for users to get apps and a great opportunity for all developers to be successful. We do this by offering a highly curated App Store where every app is reviewed by experts and an editorial team helps users discover new apps every day. For everything else there is always the open Internet." https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/