[AnthonyMouse]

> You should read it "do you trust Apple is acting in your best interests OVER any random app you might install or website you visit?".

But it isn't that. That would be the argument for choosing to install apps through Apple's store, not for Apple preventing you from choosing to install apps through a competing store.

Because then it's not Apple vs. literally every random shady garbage app, it's Apple vs. some specific alternative store that you might very well trust more than Apple to be acting in your interest, e.g. F-Droid.