You're not wrong, but it's one of the many reasons that the Play store has become a complete sewer in terms of quality, safety, and legality of the products offered.
Like Facebook, Twitter, etc. Google built the Play store (and Android at large, really) as a barn with all the doors open, and have been slowly closing them when users get too angry about a given (ridiculous for a multi-billion dollar corporation) problem.
Apple, on the other hand, built a walled garden and added doors to it as needed, and occasionally has taken some away too. You can use the cynical read and say this is to further their position in the market as the "pro privacy" alternative to Google, or you can say it's part of their core company ethos, but the result is the same either way: buying an app off the App Store carries little/no risk, and Apple strongly favors users during any issues that may arise. Play store on the other hand can be 100% safe or extremely risky, with little/no way to tell beforehand, and Google's end user support is notoriously terrible.
Like Facebook, Twitter, etc. Google built the Play store (and Android at large, really) as a barn with all the doors open, and have been slowly closing them when users get too angry about a given (ridiculous for a multi-billion dollar corporation) problem.
Apple, on the other hand, built a walled garden and added doors to it as needed, and occasionally has taken some away too. You can use the cynical read and say this is to further their position in the market as the "pro privacy" alternative to Google, or you can say it's part of their core company ethos, but the result is the same either way: buying an app off the App Store carries little/no risk, and Apple strongly favors users during any issues that may arise. Play store on the other hand can be 100% safe or extremely risky, with little/no way to tell beforehand, and Google's end user support is notoriously terrible.