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On the other hand, apps downloaded from there are given far fewer permissions on your PC. They are sandboxed to some extent [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Windows_Platform_app...

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Yeah but I'd say the main thread for KeePassXC is not the app accessing your system, it's more about the fake app accessing all your passwords

No, not all apps are UWP apps on Microsoft store. They allow normal installers as well these days.

And it suffers from the same limitations as any other attempts at filesystem sandboxing – it only caters for the simple "open/save one file" respectively "open/save within one folder (plus subfolders)" use cases and ignores (and breaks) the existence of any other workflows.

Win32 applications on the store run with trusted identity, so it allows for a bit more than that.

“This App is provided and updated by X.” I don’t know what more you expect them to do.

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