My mode with app stores is that unless I explicitly need access to device features, a web app is what I will build instead. And I'll work very hard to never put

My mode with app stores is that unless I explicitly need access to device features, a web app is what I will build instead. And I'll work very hard to never put app store reviews on the critical path to anything I care about or invest in. Including having to depend on features not accessible by a browser. I'm not going through jump through hoops to be exposed to app store reviewer abuse, arbitrary delays when releasing, and all the rest. Why would I? Why would I give veto power to any other company over every release I do? Why should I pay them for the privilege? Why would I want to hand over 30% of my revenue (or whatever it is these days)?.It just doesn't make sense. In any case, Apps are mostly irrelevant these days. Ten years ago people cared about being in the top 10 apps in the app store. That ship sailed a long time ago. Not a chance. Forget it. not going to happen. App stores as a discovery mechanism for your application are dead as a door nail as far as I can see. Apple and Google ran this into the ground. If you don't find another way to tell people about your app, they'll never find it. So, why bother with them at all? Just engineer around them. Make a nice webapp instead. Maybe package it up as a PWA. You can do a lot of stuff in browsers these days. Signups and payments happen on the web so you need a web first experience anyway. That's why many apps look like their web version these days; they are mostly just that with some minor window dressing for things like notifications and maybe a menu or two are actually native. Just skip that. Notifications are mainly annoying and nobody cares about your menus having slightly nicer "native" toggles or whatever.