I'd say it's a protection in case of their servers being breached and you downloading a malicious version of the application.
No court on earth would support them if it attempted to exfiltrate all of your data.
No court on earth would support them if it attempted to exfiltrate all of your data.
Although as TablePlus worded it, it comes across like they want to be able to intentionally add malware to their software and get away with it. I'm no lawyer so I'm not sure how feasible it would be to add a "due to circumstances outside our control" subclause of some kind.
They're still installing software with CCleaner without user consent see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner#Installing_bundled_so...