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I really hope the EU doesn't find this "compliance" good enough - it's absolutely not free sideloading of apps like on Android, or any PC ever. It's pretty much the App Store, but with a smaller fee for a while and with Apple wasting less money on server costs.
I'm sure they don't. Had they just gone with the "we can block your app for security reasons and want to see it first", they might have. But requiring long term active developer accounts (which has a yearly fee), preapproval, commission, payment per download etc, that isn't allowing sideloading at all, it's just an Apple app store in a trenchcoat.