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Thing is, I think Microsoft has a vested interest/legal responsibility to their shareholders to make sure the Windows Store is as constipated as possible.
They can't have Firefox or Chrome in there, they have to push their browser, Edge, because their shareholders will sue them if they facilitate installing someone else's spyware instead of their own. They don't put old versions of Solitaire or FreeCell in there, because the new ones run ads. Third parties are either as evil as Microsoft, or they won't touch their store with a barge pole.
So what's in the Microsoft store? Office, Minecraft Bedrock Edition, and a bunch of worthless crap you've never heard of.