The OP is making a general argument about "intuitiveness" of an interface when the difficulty arises because of strategic decision by both Apple and Google.
Also, echoes of the '90s OS wars with some similar blind spots:
- no real definition of what is meant by "intuitive"
- experience with another OS bias one's expectations to the equally arbitrary UI decisions the other OS made
Not saying that the install-from-dmg experience the OP describes is some ideal installation process, but it certainly is well within the established UI paradigms. Disks and disk images are a thing. If you want to move a thing from one place to another, you drag it there. Apps go in the Application folder, so if you download an app from somewhere other than the App store, either drag it from the disk image or the downloads folder, to the Applications folder. You don't even have to do that; the app will still work from wherever you put it.
In essence the OP is making a complaint about a standard UI feature which is being used to navigate around the elephant in the room, which is that Apple and Google can't agree on a way to get Chrome into the App store.
Also, echoes of the '90s OS wars with some similar blind spots:
- no real definition of what is meant by "intuitive" - experience with another OS bias one's expectations to the equally arbitrary UI decisions the other OS made
Not saying that the install-from-dmg experience the OP describes is some ideal installation process, but it certainly is well within the established UI paradigms. Disks and disk images are a thing. If you want to move a thing from one place to another, you drag it there. Apps go in the Application folder, so if you download an app from somewhere other than the App store, either drag it from the disk image or the downloads folder, to the Applications folder. You don't even have to do that; the app will still work from wherever you put it.
In essence the OP is making a complaint about a standard UI feature which is being used to navigate around the elephant in the room, which is that Apple and Google can't agree on a way to get Chrome into the App store.