[dpkonofa]

This is almost exactly my assessment of this. Based on the action of these companies in the past (and especially Epic), the only thing I see happening by forcing Apple to further concede is the further "enshittification" of the user experience for less tech-savvy users. I'm the "tech guy" for my family and lots of my friends and I don't want to spend any more time than I currently do troubleshooting their purchase and subscription experiences. In my mind, Apple cultivated the App Store and iOS/iPhone experience and that's what got the platform to the place it is currently. Adding the option of shittier providers and shittier platforms only makes the entire situation shittier so that a small subsection of users can install the niche apps that they want.