I wonder if Apple wouldn’t consider killing off 95+% of apps as a feature.
If the same revenue came through the app store for 1000 apps versus the bajillion now that is better for them. If a chunk of those remaining apps are first party then it doesn’t even matter if revenue went down if they get a larger chunk.
I think that they figure that people with iOS devices are mostly just going to adapt and still spend similar money versus going somewhere else.
A lot of complaints people do have are about old apps they have purchased no longer being available because a third party developer abandons them and this would help with that.