MacOS has lots of "capabilities" stuff now. It's constantly giving me anonymous prompts asking for some such privilege or not, without any explanation as to why it's necessary, what will or will not happen if I do/don't do it.

I just had the joy of kicking off a large crawl across my file system(s), expecting it to take some time, so I kicked it off just before I went to bed. This morning I arrived to a dialog "Terminal would like to access...", which naturally stalled my 3 command pipeline in its tracks, thus eliminating the primary benefit of doing the job overnight in the first place.

The other day, I guess I installed Discord, or updated it, or something. Anyway, Discord was asking for keystrokes from other apps. "Why!?"

Why does my IDE need root access to install?

What happens if I don't let random program crawl my network?

As a carbon based user, "capabilities" are a pain in the neck.

Windows lost this battle decades ago, when every. single. new program required "admin" privs to be installed. Every single one. Heck, I bet Calculator asked for it. To wit we numb users, wanting to just "use the software" said, "yes. Yes. YES! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!" to the point where you just gave it no second glance at all.

Capabilities look great on paper. They're fine for things like systemd and daemons and "stuff administrator folks" install.

For human beings, not so much.