80% of the population does not and will never do that level of deep dive on apps

same discussion for any form of technology be it TVs or changing their car's oil

the deliberate app-store-ification of all things computer is also designed to keep people from asking those questions -- just download in and install, pleb.

it's why the Zoomers can't email attachments or change file types: all of the computers they grew up with were designed so they never had to understand what happens under the hood.