I actually do open the app store specifically to find a cool new app to install. I do this maybe a couple times a year.
It never works. The apps it suggests are all ad farming garbage. I have found maybe one fun game doing this over the years, but mostly its been repeated frustration. I keep doing it occasionally in hopes that I find another diamond in the rough but I think Google has just trashed this whole thing up.
There is probably a set of users who download tons of apps and throw money after them like crazy, and that's probably what Google has optimized for.
I always do this on F-Droid, always find nice gems in there.
Wouldn't dream of doing it on Play Store, it's all trash, and even the stuff I go there to download specifically, I wish I didn't have to most of the time.
Games are the exception here. The category has real creative churn and relies less on name recognition. Discovery still feels too shallow though. Reddit is still the best source for game recommendations.
It never works. The apps it suggests are all ad farming garbage. I have found maybe one fun game doing this over the years, but mostly its been repeated frustration. I keep doing it occasionally in hopes that I find another diamond in the rough but I think Google has just trashed this whole thing up.
There is probably a set of users who download tons of apps and throw money after them like crazy, and that's probably what Google has optimized for.