I think it’s the threshold of them getting-away-with-it without too many people wielding pitchforks.

The point is about trajectory. Apple continually removes rights from developers, and then users, but grants all those rights to themselves. This has been going on for a while. I left the Apple ecosystem in 2011 because I was concerned about the direction, and in the intervening 15 years, I have not regretted it. The amount of random breakage I get on Mac is annoying enough that I'm happy to get back on Linux.

Because that's how computers have worked and should work forever? Without a corporate unerlord randomly restricting access to useful functionality and without inane permission popups for every action?

Edit yes, you'd want proper sandboxes for software. Yet Apple's approach is "pay us 100 dollars a year for software signing and sandboxing" which is not what we want

Accessing any website is basically Remote Code Execution, but for some reason starting up a browser isn't a CVE.