IMO, it's just counter to what Apple aspires MacOS to be.
If they would do it all over again, I would bet that they would have wanted to make MacOS be like iOS.
If they would do it all over again, I would bet that they would have wanted to make MacOS be like iOS.
Back in the day Apple marketed macOS as a serious Unix system for scientists and engineers boasting about NASA’s use of it.
I think if Apple aspired to lockdown general purpose computing they would push the ipad pro range with more models and slowly kill off the Mac but they’re not doing that.
They still jump through the necessary hoops to be certified as UNIX® with each macOS release:
Every OS wants to be attractive to developers. Apple has a long history of underdelivering this core proposition. To me it's an odd situation to reason about - look at Apple's dev conferences and then look at what it's like on the ground in dev's reality.