> An App Store is the last place I would go to install a desktop app on either Windows or MacOS

So you're saying that you're an old. I recently watched a gen-z go to the app store to download a desktop app instead of going to the website to download directly. They were actually confused that it wasn't available in the app store. The number of people comfortable using a desktop is lowering with more and more only having a mobile device as their only compute device. Not everyone is techy which is something that gets lost in the echo chamber that is HN