alt Hacker NewsI don't like the way it is handled. Imagine Excel actively prompting you with a pop up every time you open a sheet: "Do you trust the authors of this file? If not you will loose out on cool features and the sheet runs in restricted mode"
No it doesn't because restricted mode without Macros is the default and not framed like something bad or loosing out on all of those nice features,
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Right, I think one of the biggest problems is the name "Restricted Mode" itself. It sounds like a punishment, when it is a safer sandbox. Restricted Mode is great and incredibly useful. But it is unsurprising how people don't like to be in Restricted Mode when it sounds like a doghouse out back, not a lobby or atrium on the way to the rest of the building.
The point of an IDE is that it does stuff a simple text editor does not.
I think Excel does do something similar though with Protected View. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-protected...