Comment by johncolanduoni

It doesn’t matter what adjectives you apply to them - they do it and they’ll do it again. Most people are not equipped to evaluate the veracity of that statement, and if a few good apps don’t register with Google (that these will exist is the whole reason this move is problematic at all, right?) and ask you to click through on the website or whatever, they’ll get used to touching the stove and not getting burned.

c.f. the Windows “it could be malware” blurb. You basically can’t use any software from a small publisher without clicking through it, even if they pay for the code signing certificate.