If I have to choose between a flawed platform and a broken ecosystem I'll take the former any day.

No browser quirk is anywhere near as annoying as having a bug fix update to your app rejected for some new random capricious reason.

That's your choice to make, but pretending that developing web apps is all sunshine and lollipops and developing local apps for distribution via an OS vendor's store is fire and brimstone, is not realistic.

Do you really think that's a fair characterization of my point?

If any of it was all sunshine and lollipops they wouldn't have to pay us to do it because people would be queuing up to do it for free.

I don't know because you started off by making claims about "broken ecosystem".

The App Store may have undesirable qualities for some parties but to claim that it is a "broken ecosystem" just tells me that you're looking to exchange ridiculous hyperbole.

An ecosystem where one reviewer having a bad day can destroy your business meets just any useful definition of broken. And that's not even considering that most of the real money to be made in the app store is fleecing whales with scammy IAP.