You are able to do and install what you want on a Mac (although for some things, you’d have to disable SIP), unlike on iOS. I’m not the biggest fan of the grip

You are able to do and install what you want on a Mac (although for some things, you’d have to disable SIP), unlike on iOS. I’m not the biggest fan of the grip Apple has on iOS, but this seems less of a case of platform protectionism, and more one of not wanting to (implicitly) support low-level interfaces/implicit APIs that are becoming hard to support for whatever reason. Definitely annoying, but almost every OS does that at some point.