No, it isn’t. It’s been proven over three decades of computing that companies - even reputable ones - will do all sorts of crap to your computer.

I’m very careful what I install on my computers. I will install any random crap on iOS devices that I would never install on my computer because they are sandboxed.

Not purposefully, but there was a version of Chrome where the installer would leave your Mac inoperable if you had System Integrity Protection turned off.

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262/chrome-upd...

Both Google and Facebook encouraged iOS users to install developer certificates that were meant for internal employees so they could track them.

Epic, the biggest whiner about App Store policies, caused a huge security vulnerability when Android users side loaded Fortnite

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/just-as-critics-feared-fort...

Not to mention the old school rootkits that Sony installed back in the day

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...

It should be hard and require users to jump through hoops to allow apps to break out of sandboxes