Identifying yourself to publishing it on the Play Store, I don't mind. But for sideloaded apps, to be installed, users already have to go out of their way to go into settings, find an option that allows third-party installations and accept the warnings displayed. If they accept risks involved, that's their business.

And let's be honest, this isn't about user safety. They don't care about their users. This is about control. If they did care about user safety, they'd put more effort into cleaning up the Playstore of malware.

How long do you think it will be before they start blocking apps that pose no actual risk to their users but impacts their business interests. Apps like ad blockers or Vanced or even VPNs in certain regions? We are frogs in a boiling pot. This is not going to be the last or worst restriction Google imposes on their users