I get the desire to be clever

but...the US justice system and the EU are very different creatures and the DMA is passed law. The US has passed no laws similar to the DMA. This is a very large reach by the DOJ and they will fail hard.
The difference between a passed law and an unpassed law is only a court decision (or 3) away. And time is the enemy here for all wanting all of this kind of thing to flip into Apple's favor.
Unlike an Epic Games, GOVs have UNLIMITED money, legal resources, etc and can readily fight for up to centuries if necessary to accomplish whatever they want to accomplish. Even the "richest company in the world" cannot afford that. See Microsoft in 199X (IE), or AT&T in the 1980s (Long Distance), etc.
This stuff ends the same every time. I know of no historical example where for-profit, very rich company that got GOVs after them over these kinds of issues was able to "win" such legal battles in any a way that they got to keep doing the very same things. Not ONE. I keep suggesting in these threads for anyone who feels differently to volunteer one and nobody ever does. I presume there is not one. As such, I significantly doubt Apple will be first. We'll see. As mentioned above, time is the enemy.
The remedy that WILL work:
- learn from history,
- evolve business practices to get away from doing these things that make GOVs feel they have to take action now to reel them in.
It's one thing when you are a tiny or middling player making moves to grow your business. When you are near or at the top and "richest in the world", the old ways are no longer THE ways if they flex that power from the top too much at the expense of consumers. When competitive forces can't naturally reel in the behaviors/practices, GOVs are last resort. And GOVs don't lose these kinds of battles.
Believe whatever anyone wants to believe but this is entirely different than Apple vs. Epic, Apple vs. Spotify, Apple vs. Netflix, Apple vs. Microsoft, etc. Our usual knee-jerk doesn't apply here (except for entertainment purposes). GOV doesn't answer to shareholders, nor needs to make a profit. There is no capitalistic force working against GOV in pursuing this kind of thing. GOV feels no market pain in this kind of fight. History shows how this goes...
EVERY time. Evolve business practices or lose that IE/AT&T-type hold on this market... exactly as
they did... when GOV got involved in
those battles.
The inevitable evolution will arrive as soon as it is judged by Apple to be less profitable to maintain a costly fight than comply. And then, much like it was in being "forced" by "stupid law/GOV" to switch from proprietary Lightning to USB-C, Apple will be just fine, products will be just fine, consumers will be just fine, EU will not be a dead husk, etc. Apple has
PLENTY of opportunity to innovate
other ways to make up for the change that I'm completely confident will come for all of this. I wish they would get on with it and hope they are taking big strides in that direction behind the scenes.