I've got to say, I think your proposed message is considerably less clear than the actual one.
E.g., a reader would have to understand the perspective of the developer to even start to guess what that might mean. (Why would a developer pay or not pay $99 to Apple for verification? How do the implications of that affect my decision to run this program?) It would be pretty much meaningless to the average non-developer user.
I agree the price of notarization should be a nominal incremental cost. I don't know if there are many level 3 people doing MacOS development, but if so, there needs to be a cheaper price for them. (The numbers of level 1 and 2 MacOS developers must be practically nothing.)
E.g., a reader would have to understand the perspective of the developer to even start to guess what that might mean. (Why would a developer pay or not pay $99 to Apple for verification? How do the implications of that affect my decision to run this program?) It would be pretty much meaningless to the average non-developer user.
I agree the price of notarization should be a nominal incremental cost. I don't know if there are many level 3 people doing MacOS development, but if so, there needs to be a cheaper price for them. (The numbers of level 1 and 2 MacOS developers must be practically nothing.)