I don’t mind Apple’s walled garden in the abstract, but the fact is they’ve been a terrible steward of their App Store. If you search for an app to do something small but useful, instead you’re presented with an ocean of identical apps that all have $10 a week subscription fees. The golden age of “hey I’ll just go on the App Store and buy something handy for $3” has long past, and a lot of those few-dollar apps have switched to a subscription plan anyway, meaning the money you spent was thrown away.