[kergonath]

> that are no longer allowed to have their own custom kernel extensions for "security" and "stability"

You keep implying that there are ulterior motives without a shred of justification. Why do you think that? What power do they get by doing this?

Also, it does not prevent things like Little Snitch or the various Objective See tools from being developed. There are no fewer firewall apps than there used to be. There are no fewer virtualisation applications either.

What you don’t get is that they started from the position that kernel extensions were an attack vector and a factor of instability. Then, they started addressing each use case for kernel extensions by providing user-level facilities. You probably set the cursor at a different location on the security spectrum, but it does not mean that you are any more right than they are.

> They are slowly squeezing macOS to make it more and more like ios.

Some people have been making that tired claim for more than a decade now. You’be had year to see how it works and where they are going, and it keeps not happening. Why do you think this is more credible now?