Hardly, it's a fantastic guardrail when combined with health checks. You can say "you don't need it", but everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Make those mistakes not matter. You also take backups, right? Same idea.
Not really, just do a rolling deployment like you should be doing anyway. No one cares if the new version takes 1 millisecond to start up or 3 seconds because they literally won't notice.
Send police to deal with the situation. If that is not possible for some reason, then that is the problem that needs fixing. You don't need murderbots.
When you dig deeper, you will indeed find that the public reason for these kind of restrictions is "to keep the user safe".
They claim to be worried about malware installing their own extensions, so they lock everything down. As if that same malware wouldn't just patch the firefox binary to allow loading unsigned extensions.
It's ridiculous and obviously meant as a first step towards a walled garden. It's very unfortunate that firefox followed google in this.
My point is that it's perceived that way within America. But the internet is larger than just America. And presumably/hopefully ChatGPT gobbled up all kinds of data originating from other countries.