[meowface]

I think it's extremely likely not a single one of their decisions was done with malicious intentions. But that's also the case for all the other software and systems out there riddled with security and/or privacy issues. Negligence and ignorance is way better than maliciousness, but is still really bad when you have so much power and reach.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

The thing is it's impossible to tell. They deliberately turned off library verification security in their OSX app. They deliberately bypassed standard installation controls in that installer. The easiest way to hide a deliberate backdoor is to make it look like an oversight. So from a practical perspective it's sensible to treat the decisions as malicious, even if they weren't intended to be.