[alkonaut]

I can see the concern but from the user perspective what’s the solution assuming I want the one week release cycle of dozens of apps?

In the end I think the idea that apps install elevated but run under lower user privs is now completely outdated. One can’t and shouldn’t separate the idea of the user and the application maintainer.

> Also, using AppData to store entire apps is just plan wrong - that's NOT what it was meant for.

It doesn’t seem conceptually wrong to use program files for system wide (not per user) executables and localappdata for per user program files, regardless of whether they are program binaries or program data. Since they aren’t roaming and typically not backed up, what’s the harm in having teams.exe in there?

If chrome dumps large volumes of program binaries into app data\roaming (does it really?) then that sounds really bad. Similarly for any system that would roam anything outside of appdata\roaming.