Both major app stores have of late gone further and further down the rabbit hole of enforcing platform entitlements, and it feels like Google is catching up to

Both major app stores have of late gone further and further down the rabbit hole of enforcing platform entitlements, and it feels like Google is catching up to the point where the Play Store is nearly as hostile to advanced functionality as Apple. Most people don’t even know F-Droid exists, so the only real way is to fix this at the platform level—-maybe with an additional app review tier for specialized apps, or just a better process that doesn’t feel as if you’re talking to a generalist call center or untrained staff…