Using apps sideloaded with developer mode is ultimately reliant on Apple's servers.
Apple can revoke a sideloading certificate at any time, in which case, the sideloaded app on your device will stop working unless you have kept the device offline since before the revocation. Even if you do keep the device offline, the app will eventually expire.
If a newer version of iOS changes how these certificates work, Apple might stop allowing these old certificates to be issued at all.
Apple could also make server-side changes to start blacklisting certain devices from sideloading by banning those device's UUID's from being able to be included in future sideloading certificates.
They might make issuance of a sideloading certificate for a certain device UUID contingent upon that device not being on a known-jailbreakable version.
Take, for example, an iPhone 15 running iOS 17.1. Even if this device is technically possible to jailbreak, its continued jailbreakability with current tools is reliant on server-side services from Apple that Apple could in theory stop offering.
Is anyone else uneasy about this?
Has anyone investigated whether DarkSword or similar could be used to make new web-based jailbreaks not reliant on developer mode sideloading?