In short, the vast majority of users never need or want fine-grained control over their computers. In the HN community, we are mostly edge cases in terms of computer usage & functionality requirements.
I believe this is why there has never been any mass pushback against iOS/Android (even if Android is slightly better in this respect).
Further, neither iOS nor Android (and now OS X) have instituted huge restrictive changes all at once. Restrictions are gradual & creeping, basically moving the overton window of what is accepted.
Or just run BlueStacks, which is necessary to run Among Us (the popular game since lockdown), which isn’t signed because it’s an emulator. And it requires the “Control this mac” permission. Unsigned. There are many, many cases in which users are faced with unsigned apps.
I believe this is why there has never been any mass pushback against iOS/Android (even if Android is slightly better in this respect).
Further, neither iOS nor Android (and now OS X) have instituted huge restrictive changes all at once. Restrictions are gradual & creeping, basically moving the overton window of what is accepted.