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Well, I am pretty convinced most of the mentioned issues are actually intentional design choices.
Google does want neither the users, nor the app owners to have the best experience, but to control their actions in a way that generates the most revenue for Google.
Prime example for Enshitification.
From Google's point of view, it must not change any of the issues, as everything is working perfectly for them already.
One thing that bothers me is the reviews. For some reason, those Google Play reviews are barely helpful at all.
Gamification of reviews is one of the biggest reasons for CI/CD existing. Releasing pointless version bumps with no code changes on most apps. The whole update psychology needs to change, in general.
Sorry, best they can do is kill the little competition that managed to survive.
It's funny how American oligarchs wax theatrical about "da AI revolution" and yet they can't even solve basic issues in an application store or follow their own publishing guidelines (Twitter/Grok CSAM features).
Bunch of liars and criminals.
Wouldn't know, I don't use the Play Store on my Android phone.
Yeah. I have a few necessary apps only available through Google store, but with the exception of installing those, I never use Google play.
I opened it the other day and it's unusable for browsing apps, whereas I regularly open and browse F-Droid for new apps.
What do you use?
F-Droid
Step one: remove Android and install an open source OS
Go away!
Step one: remove Android and install an open source OSp
isn't Android open source?
Even if you have Lineage or Graphene, you may need to have access to boogle play store. In which case, a better advice would be to use Aurora instead
People with budgetary constraints are out of luck, there.