Comment by alwillis

> Apple is very much welcome to push for signing off of software that appears on their own store.

Just to be clear, apps have to be notarized/signed to run on an Apple device. For macOS, notorized apps aren't required to be distributed in the App Store. Due to sandbox restrictions, some dev tools are distributed independently.

Or there are two versions: a less capable version for the App Store and a more capable version distributed independently.