very fun watching Tech in the past decade go from "evil but usable and generally does what the end user wants it to" to "still evil but everything is so insanely complex and obfuscated For Your Protection and even basic 'match the strings' search functionality no longer works"
i tried to search an app on google play and it wasnt showing up so i assumed it was taken down. web searched "[appname] apk" and the top result was the play store link for the app