Why not? Put “added feature XY, staged rollout in the coming X days” in the changelog.

Certainly better to know that there is a new feature and you might get it now or some time later, than some nonsense like “nothing says fall like financial progress”

And also, is that not a huge security oversight, if anyone can just trigger anybody elses glasses to start streaming live video to the cloud?

Back then you could also just browse the store / categories or search for generic terms like launcher or adventure game or something like that.

Today, if you don’t know the exact name of the app you want to install you’re out of luck. And even if you do, you need to actively avoid the “sponsored” apps trying to mislead you.

Not much of a store experience anymore…

No matter how good the initial intentions, I feel like web browser development and web search under control of one single company is just too much concentration of power over the access to information to be a good thing.