Macs permission prompts remind me of this: [this video] There is several software that doesn't work with Catalina. In my case RingCentral meetings. But in general people shouldn't downgrade to it... it is 100% a downgrade, as it removes features available in the previous version.
> The ridiculous song and dance of "File is dangerous, delete it?"->No->Settings->Security->Open Anyway->"File is dangerous, delete it?"->No is getting ridiculously old after literally doing it a hundred times at this point. And soon enough Apple will inevitably come up with some additional hurdle like, idk, closing Settings three times in a row while reading a fingerprint during an odd numbered minute. > So in the name of "increased security" they've needlessly turned it into a binary thing where it's completely unprotected or accept my own computer that I paid for will deliberately waste my time constantly. Remember when Apple made fun of Microsoft for doing exactly this? [this video]
> How far OSX has come since the days of the “cancel or allow” parody advert. In case you're wondering like me, this is the advert in question: [this video]
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