(This is a rambly post imo.)
I have drank enough coffee now to remain angry at locked down hardware after seeing some posts.
You shouldn't have to run software with funny names or mess with configuration scripts to be able to run software of your choosing on any device. It should be as simple as copying the software to the device and running it like anything else.
The hurdles of jailbreaking a device were put there to stop you from running the track. They do not need to be there. Every homewbrew developer, every hacker searching for an easier entry point would love for the process to be as trivial as possible, for more people to be able to use their device as they see fit.
In some cases, once that entry point was found, it was indeed that easy. In the mid-2000s I was playing NES roms on a Dreamcast. The process was to burn a CD with a copy of the program and a folder full of roms. Incredibly low effort, and still a valid way to do so today.
And with certain ecosystems, this is getting to be the case even with computers, the devices which have traditionally always been wide open for people to run any damn program they wanted. Mac OS had no locks whatsoever for nigh on thirty years, then the concerns started rolling in that this file might be malicious. Suddenly you couldn't just run any old file off the Internet without having to dismiss a message saying "uh hey do you actually trust this?" Then it changed to "uh hey we're blocking this by default, if you disagree, go check your security settings." Soon enough even that changed to "uh hey if you wanna run stuff, either pay us to get it Digitally Signed™ or fuck off lol". Each major revision to the OS comes with new hurdles and work arounds in order to run a piece of software that wasn't specifically signed, sealed, and delivered to you by Apple themselves.
And Microsoft has shown signs of wanting to do that too. Windows users have to see the scary smart screen window saying "uh hey we've blocked this because we haven't seen anybody else run this yet lol" and know to click the useless looking "more info" button before they're allowed to instruct Windows to run it anyway. Meanwhile Windows Defender is known to target and delete batch files that run certain commands, because of their potential to be security risks in the wrong hands. I do not like these trends. User Account Control was bad enough, Smart Screen is worse, and I do not like to think about where they can go now that TPM is a system requirement. One man's "improved security against malicious software threats" is another man's "this Doom port won't run because Windows thinks the exe is bad".
