introducing windows 11! we've finally finished hardening input security. now games aren't allowed to use the keyboard or mouse.

— foone (@Foone) May 2, 2021

This is another fake “security” thing that’s gotten really common — manufacturers, including Apple with MacOS, are making it much, much harder to automate anything at the consumer OS level. Anything that sends a keystroke or makes life easier in any way is now becoming verboten.

I suspect this is mostly to push people to crappy mobile OSes, where such affordances are not available. If the real OSes are made more inconvenient then the shitty mobile ones seem more convenient by comparison.