Well, welcome back!
And you well articulated the reason I prefer Microsoft over Apple. Apple has never had the flexibility - only the things they think you will want to do.
We shall see how bad it is. I have a feeling it's might not be so bad. If more money actually goes into the developers so they can make more games, it might be good.
If not, Nintendo seems to be still rather open-ish. If not, there are probably some retro games you have yet to play.







