Yes, well I flipped the bozo bit on Apple when they introduced this “feature”. It’s simply indefensible, particularly given the way encrypted iPhone backups actually work. Unfortunately I doubt there’s enough momentum for anything like a class action suit, because local backups are just not done any more (it’s actually more likely that people will simply turn iCloud backups off to save cost and iCloud storage space and have no backup). As I’ve recently switched back to local backups to save on the unjustifiable cost of iCloud storage, I’m confronted with the prompts very regularly. It is hard to imagine Apple compromising the user experience so thoroughly by choice, yet here we are. It is not only very, very annoying, essentially unusable, but difficult to see how the responsible people at Apple could have thought it would lead to any conclusion in the minds of their users other than that Apple were simply grubbing for iCloud revenue in the most underhanded way imaginable. Very sad.
I used vocr, and I thought it was a bug that I was constantly being asked for screen recording permission, too. The utility is really at its most useful when it’s started at boot. I sincerely hope Apple do not advance with this misfeature, at least not as the default.
I have often thought that the only way to solve a problem like different types of users is simply to ask, when the user first sets up their device, what sort of user they are. Would they like Apple to assume all the risk, and make all the important choices for them, which would include being restricted to the Mac App Store, with default permissions blessed by Apple? Or would the user like all the choice and control, with all the attendant permissions dialogs, and the risk of making mistakes? I know it wouldn’t be “PC” (sorry, pun not intended) but it’s surely preferable to the present situation.