I get that you're jabbing at the Apple situation, but nobody has a problem with what you're suggesting. The problem arises when that is the only avenue to get

I get that you're jabbing at the Apple situation, but nobody has a problem with what you're suggesting. The problem arises when that is the only avenue to get onto a platform. Apple actively blocks sideloading and there's no way for a user to trust something that Apple has branded as "untrusted." Curation can coexist with untrusted code just fine, and in fact that's what Mozilla already does with their system mentioned in this thread!