I'm the author of several macOS-specific open source projects, and of several cross-platform open source projects, as well. This has been the case for several y

I'm the author of several macOS-specific open source projects, and of several cross-platform open source projects, as well. This has been the case for several years. Apple effectively decides what can run on macOS, and if you don't pay their yearly toll and jump through their hoops, your apps won't run on users' macOS installations. If you don't pay them, Apple will make it seem like your app is either broken or malicious to unsuspecting users. It's a racket and it's not worth the trouble to deal with it. Users don't understand why they can't run the un-Notarized apps they want to run. Those are the people who suffer.