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There is no reason to believe this is going to happen other than the hyper-cynical conspiracy theories.

It remains easy to disable Gatekeeper if you want. New MacBooks still allow you to install other OSes, even though that would be trivial to lock down with signed boot requirements.

So far, none of the frog in boiling water predictions have actually come true at all. It’s just people parroting the same conspiracy every time the word Gatekeeper comes up, just like we went through every time Secure Boot came up.



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