About half of these designs would confuse me. Some would make me right out refusing to run your software - even from the installation step.

I get it that designers like to innovate, but please innovate somewhere else. I want my UI/UX boring, dull and consistent.

Arguably the entire flow is just bad UI/UX and Apple should’ve fixed this when they started forcing things to need to be in Applications.

There are a number of apps that check if they’re outside that folder on boot and alert the user to either open the right one or actually install it - I.e they ran it from the mounted DMG.

I am also so tired of walking people through the absolute basic operations for installing stuff this way. If it’s still catching people this many years later, it’s probably worth just changing. Though I suppose Apple predominantly cares about the App Store as an installation channel and any other friction is fine.