No one really complained with 15.1 and macOS completely blocking software that is "untrusted".

You know the "move to bin" popup, which you used to unblock in the past by cmd+clicking the binary, or later via the settings menu for privacy & security (insane in its own right!)

Since 15.1, you're done and dusted. Unsigned/untrusted binaries simply will not run on macOS, regardless of how much you trust them to be. Thanks Apple.

That is a big deal, a really big deal... For the music industry, many industries and consumer grade software, such as game installers from GOG, etc. They simply don't open anymore once you install them fresh.

I raged for about 15 mins at these idiots at Apple for making such a breaking change to user space.

This is clearly not to protect the user as much as it is closing the walled garden onto users. Disgusting, silent move, in a minor release.

Thankfully I found the solution in

        xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ~/binary

But what do I do once this doesn't work anymore? I really wonder. I really like the M1-M4 chips. I can't stand listening to a fan anymore. If this keeps going south I will be jumping ship to the first distro that supports this hardware properly.

A sad state of affairs. macOS is a beautiful OS with its problems but very workable. Apple is slowly picking at it and worsening it, mostly, throughout the years. Long live Snow Leopard!