> So as well as being annoying at the moment of seeing them, ads in the AppStore are directly contributing to the general enshitification of apps.

You can even cut the word "apps" from the analysis here, the appstore just gets most of its money from games which are pretty much slot machines.

That's exactly why every time they promote the appstore somewhere, they put a productivity app as an example, they would like to avoid to be classified with gambling regulations, which is essentially what they are.