App-store listing is a whole other animal. I don't care to go through all that just to share my app. I also don't care to resolve every technical issue others experience. Every time I've thought about generating revenue by selling my apps, two thoughts come to mind: my code is not professional-grade, and the field is so competitive than within months a professional will likely create a better app so why pollute the web with something subpar.
The hacker on the street corner isn't distributing his "secret sauce" because it wouldn't meet standards, but it works well for him, and it was cheap/free.
Sounds like were getting at something in the conversation. For the professional developer generative ai is another tool, making us maybe a bit more capable than before. For the amateur it is a breakthrough enabling amateurs to tackle things that are wildly more ambitious than what they could before. But it's still amateur just-good–enough–for-personal-use software. Productising software is still 90% of the work of professional software development, and this is why we're not seeing a jump in the amount of for-sale software. What numbers should we track for the amount of amateur software? One number I have seen is that the npm downloads of React have jumped a lot in the last year. What this tells us about what additional stuff people are doing with React I don't know.
I like that take, and confirms I shouldn't yet spend my time trying to sell what I make.