I know this is totally tangential to what you're saying and irrelevant to your point but I'm curious. I'm pretty up on MacOS and Linux, not so much on Windows. Is Windows less of a walled garden than MacOS?
It is definitely a different experience - the Windows warnings are very easy to not take seriously, since they pop up for anything and everything. On MacOS, you have to practically agree to your PC being unsafe to even enable running non-signed code, iirc.
