> Everything should just be drag to install, drag to trash to remove.
I wish it were that easy, most apps leave files in other places on your computer like ~/Library that will never get cleaned up if you just move the app to trash.
I wish it were that easy, most apps leave files in other places on your computer like ~/Library that will never get cleaned up if you just move the app to trash.
It might be nice if macOS had some sort of automatic cleanup routine when an app is trashed, but that would either require showing the user an extra dialog (a la AppCleaner's) or introducing an opaque system which could potentially lead to data loss.
But I think the primary argumentation in favor of what macOS does now on drag-to-trash is that the users preferences are preserved, for when they install an application again.