For you maybe. Why it makes sense ? Are Xcode developers not able to test their code ? Does Apple need to know who you talk to, what are you writing or what did you eat ?
I like to ship, and that requires a lot of interaction with Apple servers.
Provisioning is a pain, and, speaking only for myself, I'm fairly happy that Apple has made that easier (by doing a lot of the handshake behind the scenes).
But, yeah, if you don't want to ship, then you probably only want interactions for things like documentation and dependency versioning.
I like to ship, and that requires a lot of interaction with Apple servers.
Provisioning is a pain, and, speaking only for myself, I'm fairly happy that Apple has made that easier (by doing a lot of the handshake behind the scenes).
But, yeah, if you don't want to ship, then you probably only want interactions for things like documentation and dependency versioning.