This is just such a sad state of affairs. In the end nobody wins and everyone loses - apple and developers. Now Apple needs to provide the APIs for alternative

This is just such a sad state of affairs. In the end nobody wins and everyone loses - apple and developers. Now Apple needs to provide the APIs for alternative markets which is a waste of time as well as making more vulnerability vectors and potentially confusing users. And app developers who decided for whatever reason to use their own distribution channel would still have to pay apple on every purchase. What is the point of this change?