> What are the alternative shops you're referring to here?

In this analogy, the alternative shop that is preventing you from buying stuff from its competitors without a 24 hour wait is the Play Store monopoly.

> but there could easily be a world in which your 'alternative' verifier would still make you wait 24h (or longer).

Then in this hypothetical world where there were a free market for verifiers rather than a single, monopolistic choice, I would choose another alternative verifier that doesn't make me wait 24 hours, or no verifier at all.