[zelon88]

See, I disagree with that. The computer is an arbitrary command execution machine. It does what you tell it to do. Don't tell the computer to do stupid shit and it won't. There are plenty of valid use cases where you want to use the capability of the computer without some arbitrary OS policy preventing you from doing it "because some programmers are irresponsible."

[lxgr]

In a world of various medium-trusted apps that I don’t love but still have to use to get my job (or a bank transfer etc. done), that model doesn’t really work for me anymore.

Users aren’t “telling the computer what to do” anymore for the most part, third party app developers are; this puts a lot of responsibility on the OS for protecting the interests of its user against that of a malicious or careless app developer.

Of course I want to be able to fine-tune that protection, but restrictive defaults make sense.