small fraction
iOS Appstore alone has over 100 million EU users. iPadOS over 23 million. Tiny.
It should be left to the free market to decide.
aka, it should be left to apple fanboys to decide.
Apple has good reasons not to allow this
they sure do — they like to keep their users with no choice whatsoever, locked in their little and wonderful cage.
Also, you’re wrong — EU doesn’t ask for sideloading worldwide, and Apple will not make it available worldwide either. The changes are exclusively for EU and EU only. And god I love to live in EU, right about now.
After Felix celebrated the goal there’s no way he plays for Atleti again. Just like Barca did with Griezmann when he returned to AM, Atleti will have to sit and do the right thing for Felix. Even if that means letting him go at a loss.