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That's a feature, not a bug. It's an archive after all.
It's even a tape archiving tool. Just pretty much nobody uses it in the original way any more.
Very much one of those "if it ain't broke, don't replace it" tools.
but also the way it puts file data one after the other can be beneficial for compression, especially if you can define the order of the files somehow
I just assumed that whenever it would be expanded that the contents would have the default permissions for that user.
It's actually a cool feature I just feel dumb for how long it took me to realize this was the issue.
that can be done too. tarballed software normally doesn't have permissions attached I think