The Mac App Store provides real benefits: reduced app permissions, effective malware screening, improved auto-update, and easy uninstallation. I do see that it

The Mac App Store provides real benefits: reduced app permissions, effective malware screening, improved auto-update, and easy uninstallation. I do see that it's incompatible with many OS augmentation programs, but for the App Store to reduce security would be pyrrhic. What we need is a user-granted sandbox opt-out, so that I can unencumber only programs I believe need it and won't abuse it, without taking the App Store's benefits from those programs.