Tim Sweeney is missing the point; the PC platform needs fixing - Ars Technica.
"Why are the UWP restrictions worthwhile? What Sweeney seems to miss is that the PC platform is, for many people, broken, and a lot of people don't actually like it. The 'consoleization' of the PC, like the consoleization of the smartphone before it, isn't motivated simply by some desire to seize control of software sales. It's motivated by the desire to make the PC not horrible.

The PC platform has a bad reputation. Malware in all its various types is endemic. Even good software comes bundled with undesirable spyware. Software applications suffer incompatibilities with each other; they suffer incompatibilities with device drivers. Programs do not uninstall cleanly, leaving detritus scattered hither and yon. They also don't upgrade consistently, with every single application having its own patching and updating infrastructure. Even when everything works, upgrading your operating system is prone to breaking it all. These problems may be overstated somewhat by the platform's detractors, but they're all true to at least some extent, and these problems serve only to boost non-PC platforms."