I kind of blame UX and bad incentives for this. Most of these attempts at curating installation all started as well intended means of keeping malware out of the

I kind of blame UX and bad incentives for this. Most of these attempts at curating installation all started as well intended means of keeping malware out of the OS. If you think it’s bad today, you forgot what it was like 20 years ago. However, the evolution of platform protection slowed down as it became clear this was an amazing revenue generator. Incentives became blurred. A new type of malware showed up aimed purely at collecting your data, and our protections haven’t kept up, because that’s no longer the goal.