But that's a result of the Agile way of development. The MVP is "be able to drag a program to the terminal and run it", and the next feature, way down on the backlog is "allow the user to revoke permissions granted by dragged-in apps"

It's actually the result of product-owners deciding to release unfinished software, likely responding to incentives from management to ship (boolean) without clear standards about what is shippable (non-boolean).

I think you're trying to derive too much insight from a small change like this.

I agree, but it's not an unfair comment in light of what a mess Catalina and iOS 13 have been as a whole.

Software always is and always will be unfinished.

This isn’t an MVP. Its an existing system with an existing set of user expectations that should be enhanced not reduced.

I don't like this... but in fairness, this is not a regression.

The Documents folder was not protected from Terminal before Catalina. Now, items in Documents are protected unless you explicitly drag them into Terminal-- but there's no way to "re-protect" them.

That is, at worst, users are in the situation they were before Catalina.