They want to punish customers for electing regulators who care about consumer protections.

This is large scale abusive boyfriend behavior, doubling down.

Anyone who defends google/Android has been heeled in fear.

It's really sad that Apple and Google (and to some extent MS though they're just behind in this race to the anti-consumer bottom) happened upon this "solution to malware" (note: not a real solution) of "OS vendor vets and controls all software." It's a lazy way, it's an ineffective way, and it has made computers - incredibly flexible, programmable devices - more like cable boxes or telephones from past decades, that you had to rent from a monopolist and had no control over.