@davemark@joannastern My guess: the first isn't going to happen because it would essentially allow sideloading on iPad and risk undercutting the app store revenue model.
The second isn't going to happen because it would take tremendous resources and those are all dedicated to visionOS at this point.
My "hail mary" hope is that investments on visionOS might trickle down into iPadOS. After all, a Vision Pro and an iPad Pro are both pretty expensive pro-oriented devices 🤷♂️