The problem is that most of the mainstream apps will not be in F-Droid et al. when they are the ones which should be in there.
We lose all transparency for the big players. Meta does not want us to know precisely how much it collects data.
If they can start somehow avoid Apples privacy restrictions and reduce transparency with side loading, they will do it.
There isn’t really problem with the lack of sideloading in iOS.
It is just that costly developer licence and strict requiremets of App store to increase the quality of the apps.
Sideloading just makes it easier to install lower quality software and some random oss projects where maintainers do not have either Apple’s licence or time to maintain app store releases.
Of course, there is the payment fee but that is another story.
We lose all transparency for the big players. Meta does not want us to know precisely how much it collects data.
If they can start somehow avoid Apples privacy restrictions and reduce transparency with side loading, they will do it.
There isn’t really problem with the lack of sideloading in iOS.
It is just that costly developer licence and strict requiremets of App store to increase the quality of the apps.
Sideloading just makes it easier to install lower quality software and some random oss projects where maintainers do not have either Apple’s licence or time to maintain app store releases.
Of course, there is the payment fee but that is another story.