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90% of users when they are presented with the UAC popup when they do something:
"Yes yes whateverrr"
🤷♂️ people are going to take the path of least resistance
It would be trivial to add a "please click 'yes' to the UAC prompt to allow verification" screen, so that isn't really going to stop anyone.
I've seen a bit of office malware in the past that did that, where it had a bunch of images instructing you to enable macros and that.