History catching up to today's security environment. This is also how permissions and APIs evolve over time. Apple (and hopefully other OSes) is likely working

History catching up to today's security environment. This is also how permissions and APIs evolve over time. Apple (and hopefully other OSes) is likely working on a global hotkey hook system, that has a less intrusive permission requirement. Unfortunately it will take YEARs before applications in general start using that. And this is Absolutely the correct thing for the OS to do.