AppStore Preferences can be unlocked by a local admin with any bogus password
This does not help at all for the drubbing that macOS High Sierra has been getting recently. Long term OS X users have been waiting for a Snow Leopard like release, but it seems like Apple isn’t taking as much care as required on security and stability on the Mac. Something has to give — either Apple’s organizational structure needs a change or Apple needs to abandon certain things completely instead of releasing sub-standard products that aren’t expected from it.As a long time Mac user, I keep hoping that Apple will decide to double down on better and deeper focus on all its products, including the Mac, its OS and ecosystem, and make the changes necessary across its organization and its teams.