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We ignoring that they now, as of the last 2 years claim unsigned apps are "Broken" and need to be "Moved to the Trash" instead of just "Unsafe" with an "Open" command?
They're moving at snails pace but there are people working at Apple trying to force the hands of devs into an iOS like system.
And yet every single paid streaming service refuses to serve high quality video to users on platforms like Linux. This is entirely normalized, and they still get to call themselves "web" sites because this mechanism is now officially part of "the web".
The frog boils very slowly.
This from an industry that broke a zillion scripts as part of renaming git master to git main on the basis that the first name is somehow hateful.
That was the actions of a small group of extremists, and there was widespread opposition to it too.
Spinning the opposition as "hate" seems rather popular these days, and it's not wrong: We hate what Big Tech has done and is continuing to do to our freedoms and it's about time we released all of our rage on our oppressors.
The real problem here seems to be giving one single company too much unchecked power rather than the individual proposal itself.
FWIW I didn't think any of the previous things would turn catastrophic, but I do think this might. I work with a lot of web marketers and also with security teams, and they will both salivate over this. Between marketers and security teams, that's like 90% or more of the internet.
This change is laying a trail of metaphorical kerosene from the campfire. It's possible the fire won't spread beyond the fire ring, but it won't take much for it to escape and then it's going to be unstoppable.