I prompted up a very basic Flask scaffold via Windsurf and once it reached a certain code size, it just started to remove or weirdly rewrite old parts to handle the context. ("You're right let's move that back in"). Didn't end well.
It will not lessen your outrage, but I recently built a news search engine that pulls from 200 selected sources for a more limited, spam-free experience.
https://mozberg.com
No, not for the App Store account — which can be a different one. Once you've downloaded an app with a different account, the credentials will be stored and you can switch back to the native one; you'll also get regular updates. I do this all the time for US-only apps on an EU phone (e.g. Google Voice).
I've saved ~50k .webarchive files from Safari in a single folder, indexed via Spotlight — not an archivist's dream, but I'm a sucker for using anything in the OS stack.