I wish articles like this were around when I built my crypto trader mac app. I agree with others here that codesigning is a pain. One thing -- I don't really think adding licensing/copy protection is that hard and I personally think it is beneficial. I use a SaaS to hadnle the backend of that. It's been awhile but I remember it being pretty painless to integrate a simple licesning setup where my users activate devices up to their maximum according to their license key's tier.