> No, because to install unverified apps the user has to 1) enable developer mode,

As I said in my first comment, that change is separate from app verification.

> which was already possible, so it is not enabled by app verification

It was not. Read the rest of that sentence beginning with "without."

> App verification has no reason to exist if installing unverified apps is not restricted.

App verification is required to allow installing apps outside a system app store without any warning to the user, as required by the ruling.