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As mentioned elsewhere, the trusted workaround is AppCleaner (https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/). I just wish it was open source.

An attempt at an open source AppCleaner, I worked on a script, called zap (https://github.com/idianal/zap), that aims to replicate much of the same functionality (without a GUI). The benefit for users is they can see exactly what it is doing on their computer.

Here I outline the limitations: https://idian.io/posts/2022/writing-an-app-uninstaller-for-m....



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