uninstall Apple Store, which comes pre-installed in iOS, to stop getting these notifications
edited post. The original description & title was me complaining about this notification thinking it was default behavior of iOS, not knowing it came from the Apple Store
The App store and the Apple store are two different apps.
So it is. And my iOS is set to remove apps I don’t use, by way of saving room for cat pictures. So I never even noticed it’s existence. Yay, me.