You can implement all those things, just differently now.
Relatedly, now random apps can't record the whole screen. This is a good thing, now they get explicit user permission and go through xdg. I don't know how anyone could be opposed to this - it's objectively more empowering for you, the user.
Yes, it's empowering because your "rights model" is one where you don't have rights. You don't know what applications are using what data, and you also can't stop it. Is that empowering? I think no.
But if you wanna argue Chrome should be able to read all your keyboard inputs whenever it wants be my guest. I can't fathom why people want that type of setup.
Relatedly, now random apps can't record the whole screen. This is a good thing, now they get explicit user permission and go through xdg. I don't know how anyone could be opposed to this - it's objectively more empowering for you, the user.