We did it everyone! We forced Google not to be evil. 💪 🎉

Side-loading will be cumbersome, but it will remain possible.

Thanks everyone for speaking up against Google's plans! 🙏 ❤️

@Tutanota not a win at all. It fails to achieve stated goal - scammer apps in appstore keep popping up, and this measure does not change it. It has very different intent.
Imagine you do add-apt-repository, and your machine screams that you might be in mortal danger and now you're on your own, then asks you to wait for 24h. That is what they did to android.