You have to learn to deal with abundance in a healthy way. A greater abundance of anything means more low-quality stuff as well. Whether that's food, music, people, software, or anything. But it also means more high quality stuff.
Whereas for software, we're down to just a few supermarkets and they have made no effort to stay on top of curation - in fact Google and Apple straight up monetized bad curation with advertising, which inherently favors the "unhealthy" food able to recuperate that money through addiction.
It's as easy as ever to get good software for your computer or phone by doing it the old way through in-person or online message board recommendations. Starting at the App Store when searching for software is out of the question, for reasons you mentioned.