The app store is broken and can't be fixed

You can't save the app store, and neither can Google or Apple.
Some would point out that more apps are being downloaded than ever before, which is true. And more still would argue that Apple and Google are paying their developers more than ever before, which is also true.
But the people who focus on these metrics miss one key point: The app store is increasingly a place for the 1% of developers, and those who aren't already at the top have a really hard ti