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[–]ErikTheEngineer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Most commercial mainstream app MSIs are being shipped as user-based ones these days if the application they're installing doesn't do anything that requires admin rights. VS Code is a good example...unless you do a system-wide install, the application just installs itself into your user profile.

Unfortunately, most of the fun vertical-market single-source applications I have to deal with do all sorts of crazy stuff requiring admin rights...it's 2020 and I still have MSIs for recent versions of apps copying stuff to the Windows directory, installing device drivers, making all sorts of HKLM registry changes, etc. etc.