Most apps you'd care about in those cases would be perfectly buildable via Homebrew.

Note that "buildable" is much more of a hassle than "installable".

There is a reason not everybody is using gentoo.

homebrew removes that hassle. "brew install" doesn't make you download and build everything from source.

At present. The impression I got from the threads above is that will change with this requirement.

> brew cask quarantines, but not regular brew.

> ...which makes it all the more annoying for "power users" that there's no simple switch anymore to allow all apps to run without the scare/confirmation popups