Arguably the entire flow is just bad UI/UX and Apple should’ve fixed this when they started forcing things to need to be in Applications.

There are a number of apps that check if they’re outside that folder on boot and alert the user to either open the right one or actually install it - I.e they ran it from the mounted DMG.

I am also so tired of walking people through the absolute basic operations for installing stuff this way. If it’s still catching people this many years later, it’s probably worth just changing. Though I suppose Apple predominantly cares about the App Store as an installation channel and any other friction is fine.

> they started forcing things to need to be in Applications

Since when?

Agree with your other points overall.

I'm a few glasses of wine deep on a long haul flight so I don't remember offhand, but it was far enough back that it was an issue on Catalina - apps would get mounted as read-only (the transliteration problem).