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So what if that is their reasoning? Freedom also means the freedom to make mistakes. We don't set a standard of "absolute safety" in many other (arguably more important) areas of our lives, so why do it here?


Because a computer is an appliance for most people, with it working, and it being secure, being an absolutely critical feature.

I believe still have the option to disable SIP and make as many mistakes as you want. [1]

1. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...

> Workaround: During development, you can temporarily disable System Integrity Protection to allow these deprecated kernel extensions to load.


The fact that you can still disable SIP is a good point and I hope that's always possible. The direction Apple is going thought suggests that an iPad-like experience is the eventual goal.


The requirement of a developer account, or some entitlement, to get full access would really be unfortunate.




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