[choeger]

That's the equivalent of "just run with sudo". People don't want to deal with different configurations, policies, etc. So to provide a "one-click" Installation, they'll just change the whole environment to whatever they think they need. Good luck installing multiple such programs.

[Brian_K_White]

It's like homebrew making /usr/local itself and everything in it all owned by whatever user installed homebrew for years until Apple finally just took over the directory.

"most macs are really single user anyway"

Really? That's the excuse? I'm supposed to feel good about software coming from this quality engineering?