MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

Did apple make any comments on this? I haven't been able to find any public responses from them. I'm really interested on reading their side of things. This is quite jarring, it's hard to believe it is a thing. However, as I read through tests people did, it seems just as bad as it sounds.

I was actually getting a mac mini now that I'm working from home (I thought I'd get better integration with some of the company's wfh infrastructure while still having a unixy environment, so a win/win situation), but I cancelled the purchase after reading this. I get that you can jump some hoops and set some apple specific flags to things so that it works better, but the reason I wanted a mac was to make things easier and not having to look into obscure APIs and features to get simple things working. I was really looking forward to that, but I don't feel that sort of investment will be justified with issues like this in their OS :/

This is frankly hyperbole. A single checkbox in a GUI menu that is routinely accessed for managing other system-wide sandbox privileges isn't exactly obscure. It also isn't some difficult, inconvenient task. It needs to be done once.

From what I've read it's not available by default and you need to run some commands (which seem to be hard to google). And that solves only part of the problem, the article had other examples that may be harder to solve. It seems like, if your internet connection is not great, then you're going to have a bad experience.