This was introduced in macOS at some point (Catalina release?) and I saw a whole bunch of people complain about the number of dialogues they had to go through.

This was introduced in macOS at some point (Catalina release?) and I saw a whole bunch of people complain about the number of dialogues they had to go through. I really like it, though. New applications have to ask whether they can read/write from ~/Documents or ~/Pictures, or read contacts. I agree with you, and also wish something like this existed for modern Linux desktops.