Proposal on Play Store security measures (alternative to Google's mandatory "developer verification")

What Google claims to be doing for the sake of security is, in fact, not really related to security. Let me explain why. Before diving into details, we should first clarify what "security for whom" and "from whom" are Google's measures supposed to protect according to their statements. If we sum up all the official statements and publications by Google on this topic, they say that security is provided for end users of applications against malicious actors who create and publish harmful or phishi