I wasn't trying to say that "nothing is going to change", just giving
some idea of the landscape of possible designs.

Consider Online Accounts. Besides notifications, they are the other big
thing where an app's ability to use them can be toggled externally (and
I've just discovered they're controlled by trust-store). Now, we could
put Online Accounts inside "Security & Privacy", alongside Camera and
Microphone ... but people wouldn't think of them as a security/privacy
thing, so they'd be hard to find there. Alternatively, we could promote
Camera and Microphone to the top level of System Settings, alongside
Online Accounts ... but that would be giving high prominence to settings
that are neither frequent nor urgent. So that's an example of where
frequency/urgency trumps logical grouping.

A smaller possible change would be to abolish "Other app access",
hoisting its contents up alongside Location inside "Security & Privacy".
Location, Contacts, Camera, Microphone, etc. What do you think?

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