I agree if someone makes something like the ice app for their country the government should be able to track them down if they want. There shouldn’t be a way for citizens to distrupt things for any reason. We need government to control every aspect of our lives and key is to make everything trackable for a safer world so the authorities in power can remain in power.

Every action should be identifiable. Including lemmy. It disturbs me that such a site where people arent required to provide real IDs exists.

Its more that from the position of optics stating you are going to leave for Apple is a bigger deal to Google than saying you are upset. Average person isn’t going to use adb or install a custom rom to get non play store apps working.

So just approaching it like a regular person who happens to use Android who isn’t super tech savvy saying might as well go to Apple if sideloading isn’t easy is more effective than ranting about sideloading from the position of an Android nerd. Those people are truly niche and less than 1% and would be dismissed with a laugh.