I would. I have a couple apps on my phone that are no longer in the app store due to policy changes at Apple. One is an old version of AdGuard which was essentially an on-device pihole. The other was an internet radio tuner which was pulled for reasons unknown.

Until recently you couldn't purchase books in the Kindle app. I'd have happily downloaded a non-broken version from Amazon.

There are many examples of apps with strong safeguards that aren't allowed in the apple app store.