[sssilverman]

Seriously. You want to ask the CTO to make artifacts public because you don't want devs to set or clear an attribute bit? Talk about entirely the wrong priorities.

Where did this coddled sense of entitlement come from? Are they creating their own SSH keys? Do they know the basics of the git cli? Or are these "magic commands" too? Do they know how to do their job?

I sympathise that Apple's tooling could be better, but the conclusion and tone is ridiculous given what could charitably be described as 'unique' requirements.

Our internal CLI tools have all largely been hassle free regardless of devs OS. We do use GoReleaser which abstracts away the multi arch builds, signing, and publishing to GitHub and Homebrew, which can be criticised sometimes as a bit of a crutch. But it's also been zero hassle for all of our Mac devs (the most junior of which are still expected to be able to download and execute a binary from a terminal.) and lets us get on with our day without prioritising 'requirements' that aren't even worth spending any time on.

Why would you even ship a command-line tool if your apparent need is to avoid the command line?