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> This is great but too big of a hammer for most use cases.

This is not in any way intended for most use-cases, it's very clearly intended for a single, specific, uncommon use-case. The press release says as much more than once.

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I guess my point is that instead of making a special mode that is only useful for a minority of users, it would have been really nice to get a feature that everybody should be thinking about and using.

Perhaps that's what it eventually evolves into. Probably easier to get this off the ground by developing it as a separate mode.

Different people who specialize in different aspects of security can be working on different things at the same time; and contrariwise, experts have comparative advantages and would be mostly wasting their time working outside their nich.

In other words: there's no "instead" here, any more than there's an "instead" between e.g. UI work and backend server work. Different people, different competencies, concurrent capacity.

Every time I have allocated labor on a software project, I was mostly playing a zero-sum game. I am surprised to learn that Apple does not have such problems.

Regardless, I was just lamenting that we don't (yet) have a feature that should be table stakes at this point.

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