They most assuredly are on Epic’s side both in regards to monopolies and microtransactions. Epic and Fortnite are their template for what paid content should be - you want it, you buy it. No gambling aspect, no winning loot boxes aspect, you just pay for the thing you want. And regardless of any of that, law doesn’t operate on emotive views like that. The law doesn’t like or dislike a company.
The key thing to remember is that whether Apple is a monopoly or not largely depends on legal specifics, but the EU is capable of making law in order to force Apple to behave better even if it’s slipping through the cracks. The only problem with that is it’ll take a decade and we’ll all be dealing with a new monopolistic player then.