These things should be optional. As a user, I'm confident enough that I can download software and run it without any major problems. Even if it turns out to be

These things should be optional. As a user, I'm confident enough that I can download software and run it without any major problems. Even if it turns out to be malicious, I know how to get rid of it. Most users are not like this. They really do benefit from a restricted experience. That's why app store and extension restrictions should exist. The problem is when engineers go all in on the restrictions, and completely abandon the other set of users. This is software, it can have an infinite number of knobs and customisations. It's not a table, which can only have a fixed number of legs.