The arguments over restricting sideloading of apps are fascinating to me.

By nature, I am someone who hates the ides of restricting sideloading, because I am guaranteed to want to run whatever I want, including my own handcrafted software, on any device I own. I am exactly who they have in mind when they argue that OS developers should not be able to control what you can run on your device.

But I am also someone who understands that there *is* a perfectly reasonable argument for it, insofar as a brief observation of normie users should make it obvious that closed app ecosystems are what stands between them and installing 53 silly little games and desktop toys that also mine bitcoin/serve child porn/hack elections for Russia/steal secrets for the CCP/DDoS shit for 4chan.

This is not an easy balance to strike, especially if the penalty for getting it wrong is having to explain to Congress what a Com-Pew-Tah is and why they shouldn't fine you umpty-billion dollars for not implementing Magical AI-Powered Anti-Bad-Stuff tools.