Venting about all the security features blocking my own local apps

UPDATE from the O.P. - I am developing on a new personal laptop, my first laptop purchase in a few years. It has 32GB RAM and a terabyte of space, (in my opinion) a development-class laptop. But it was not made clear to me at the time of purchase that this device is sold with consumer-level (strict) Smart App Control security. I have used Settings to disable SAC, but it isn't really disabled. Some of the security is burned into BIOS. There are still policy files in C:\Windows\System32\CodeIntegrity\CiPolicies\Active. I tried to review the CIP files, but this requires booting into safe mode. As a developer on this device, I need to self-sign my own local apps to allow debugging from bin\debug. Every time I add a nuget package, new security annoyances appear. I am concerned that I am one Windows Update away from being unable to debug and run my own EXEs without paying for CA-signed certificates.

I would like to spend my time playing with AI. I want to have fun. But noooooo, every day or two I have to track down a new security issue blocking my EXEs. This is not fun and not protecting me from anything.