Comment by Defletter

> It feels like permission models are stuck in engineering for low-level programs and nobody thinks about how actual people will use it

Not to be a perpetual curmudgeon, but I feel like a portion of the blame for this could the developers XY'ing each other into the broadest use-case possible. Allowing users to select photos to embed into their messages gets "but what are you really trying to do?"-d into just putting access to the filesystem behind a flag.