Since SL I feel that Apple gets more and more control over Apps, rather then me over my own system. Being for years able to advocate that apple approach, with

Since SL I feel that Apple gets more and more control over Apps, rather then me over my own system. Being for years able to advocate that apple approach, with all problems, was at least superior in user interface feel and experience. Now I have more and more trouble finding real arguments. I can't stand popups, they appear in the middle of what you do. They interrupt your flow. If you ask me they should not exist in a good software.Certainly I was not missing a lot of dialogs for security. I need one list in one place with permissions/apps where I can tune what is allowed and what is not for each app, including(!) Apple Apps and where they connect. It's getting worse and worse in many aspects. I feel less and less in control about what system does. I can't track what connects, where, why and which information is sent, for instance by Calendar, when I turned off all related to iCloud, I do not expect it to connect anywhere, yet it does. Also some "geod" deamon connects every time I go online even though I disabled everything possible through GUI related to iCloud and even time sync ... So why it connects I have no idea, but if I forbid it in a router, then guess what? Internet doesn't work completely. Safari won't load anything. We talk about privacy and security? How about fixing those behaviours and giving me control back? How is catalina with that? So we have many dialogs, distracting us from what are real privacy concerns?