Apple themselves have a quirk in some cases where apps that aren’t in an Applica...

mike_hearn · on May 13, 2025

That's not a bug, it's a security feature (hack?) called translocation. It happens if you run an app that was downloaded without moving it first using the Finder.

Klonoar · on May 13, 2025

I know what the feature is called.

I would not consider something so confusing to the end user to be a security feature. This is a bug, or you could use the label "broken".