I strongly agree. Luckily, a lot of other people do, and the ecosystem is moving towards run-time permissios ("portals") that allow users to confirm access. It

I strongly agree. Luckily, a lot of other people do, and the ecosystem is moving towards run-time permissios ("portals") that allow users to confirm access. It does take a while for toolkits to start using them, but AFAIK, as an example, both KDE and GNOME now transparently use portals for the file chooser dialog. It will take more time for everything to move to newer, safer APIs (Wayland, screensharing portal, etc). The situation is much better than it was a few years ago, though. And most frontends now display required permissions; KDE even recently integrated permission management in is system settings. Some portals still need to be devised though, especially for device access (gamepads, webcams, etc).