[user3939382]

Gatekeeper is a travesty and assault on user freedom. Apple should not be in charge of what you run on your computer, at all. Any exception to this should be opt in. If a user wants to insert a third party between themselves and a programmer they can elect to do that.

Let’s not forget when Apple’s certificate server was down and suddenly you couldn’t launch apps on macOS, to say nothing of the abuse of user rights.

[drfloyd51]

Users used their freedom to choose macOS. Gatekeeper is a desirable feature. They opted-in with their purchase.

[foltik]

Speak for yourself, I used my freedom to disable it.

[hspmn]

you're saying security should be optional and up to users?

lol

[user3939382]

Suggest you read up on the Free Software Foundation if you’ve come to equate security with someone else controlling your machine without your consent.