My heavily downvoted comment was also a sarcasm.

So here's the dilemma：

- People are afraid of plugins "in the wild". People need some kind of centralized, managed "extension store"

- People complains about store policy like Manifest V3

I don't think a single mechanism can please both crowds.

And what's worse? Google doesn't actually care about the security of the the "store". Scam extensions are everywhere. The "audit process" are minimal, customer/developer service are essentially none, and Google only enforce rules that affect their ads business.