The typical desktop for most user is a dumping ground for whatever it is they are currently working on. Or in some cases more or less anything they've been work

The typical desktop for most user is a dumping ground for whatever it is they are currently working on. Or in some cases more or less anything they've been working on for the past years. A dumping ground full of potentially sensitive documents, work-in-progress files that are not supposed to leak beyond the computer, etc. Do you really think any application on your computer should be allowed to read and write them because "that's what applications do"? 90% of the 'applications' on my computer I didn't even install myself, like uninstallers, updaters, helper applications, background services, whatever. These have no business looking at files in my Desktop folder. And particularly not if its on iCloud and shared with other devices like my phone.