> App Store/Google Play/Windows Store/macOS Store are not and never have been curated for software the user can trust, only things that do not harm the perceived interests of their owners. They are not trusted sources.

Amen. The proliferation of knock-off apps, shovelware and spyware was not the future we wanted but it's exactly the one we built for ourselves. If you explore this conflict of interest between users, OEMs and developers, you start to reconsider your enthusiasm for the whole cloud computing era.