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I suspect this is 10% of the reason why System Integrity Protection exists. Yes, it's great to stop malware, but it's even better to save your frontline support from having to deal with people who decided that it'd be a good idea to delete the dyld shared cache because it's 15GB and ""doesn't look useful"" https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250117852


For those not aware, that file is the equivalent of all of /usr/lib on Linux. It is, quite literally, most of the core OS above the kernel.


That looks like an excellent opportunity to name that better.




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