Also, most web users are idiots, who should NOT be trusted installing apps outside of their “walled garden” app stores. While most of us here in this thread are probably more than capable of using F Droid and sideloading apps safely, the average user is not. So encouraging people to venture outside of the safety of their restrictive ecosystems is more often than not completely counterintuitive, as inexperienced users who sideload apps are more likely to have their data actually compromised maliciously (ie. ransomware attacks)

Play store is definitely not a safe place for such idiots either.