Venting about all the security features blocking my own local apps

I have Windows 11 Pro with a new laptop (a good brand with 32GB RAM). (I wanted a Surface, but way too expensive.) I am a retired .NET developer and I still code at home. I have a few personal apps that are run from task scheduler. Getting a laptop to start an app from the task scheduler in the middle of the night is a whole other discussion (laptops prefer not to stay in a state that task scheduler can wake from).

But let's say I have apps that upload files to my personal web site. I have needed to:

• add firewall rules for the apps in whatever folders they run from;
• add Windows Security exceptions for the EXEs and folders;
• move the EXEs to folders under Program Files because Device Guard otherwise blocks them (I don't want to bother with signing the apps), and trust me when I say you don't want to try to disable Device Guard, and there is no way to add exceptions to Device Guard;
• wonder why aka.ms/myrecoverykey has been messed up for days;
• adjust Visual Studio Debug settings to refer to the Program Files locations;
• log extensively from my apps because I never know what new Windows feature will block them, and watch obscure event logs such as CodeIntegrity;
• constantly update third-party modules (Nuget, etc.).

Yeesh, I just want to post a message of the day on my own web site.