That a century old company with decades of tradition in gaming is not able to eke out a workable business model on Apple's App Store that is not exploitative is indeed fascinating to me. It should be a damning conclusion to the current business model.

I am familiar with the Epic debacle. And while I find the Apple Arcade business model a much better one, I am not sure if it works at the scale of an entire app store. We'll have to see if SetApp ever takes off (same business model, but for apps).