[righthand]

Regardless you still had to do it. Anyone that doesn’t do it is in a restricted use case for the machine. That’s my point which I made clear in my original comment. Disabling it allows you to use the machine outside of restriction. Fancy that!

[tristor]

I only had to do it years ago. I have a new M5 Max MBP and it has never had SIP disabled, neither did my M1 Max MBP I replaced. That's at least 4-5 years where it's been unnecessary. Never needed it on Apple Silicon devices, although I don't think the SoC arch is related to why.