While I agree that it’s ideal to treat localstorage as a permission, as someone who has played a lot of games over the years I can tell you that I wish I could

While I agree that it’s ideal to treat localstorage as a permission, as someone who has played a lot of games over the years I can tell you that I wish I could manually manage game state files. The current way iOS does it (either keep the game installed forever or erase all your progress when deleting it) is a huge barrier to me getting invested in iOS games at all. With “save progress to file” (and loading), I would be a lot more comfortable. I would still want autosave though. No way do I want to go back to the era of “oh all my work for the past 6 hours is just gone?”