[magguzu]

Which is totally fine IMO, it was weird to me that they weren't going with this approach when they first announced it.

Macs blocked launching apps from unverified devs, but you can override in settings. I thought they could just do something along those lines.

[kelnos]

That's not fine at all. A developer who doesn't want to (or can't) distribute through the Play Store will now need to teach their users how to enable developer mode and toggle a hidden setting. This raises the barrier a bit more than the current method of installing outside the Play Store.

[hasperdi]

It's not fine. Some apps particularly banking apps have developer mode detection and refuse to work if developer mode is enabled.

[exe34]

I've switched banks for less.