Except that the users themselves aren't permitted by Apple in all their benevolence to grant an app the necessary permissions on a device which they supposedly

Except that the users themselves aren't permitted by Apple in all their benevolence to grant an app the necessary permissions on a device which they supposedly own! Of course users willingly made the choice to purchase such a device in the first place, though I'm not at all convinced that most understood the tradeoffs they were making. To say that my feelings about the current situation are conflicted would be an understatement.