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The issue is that "imposing the sandbox" isn't simple.

Apple themselves have "imposed a sandbox" for Safari since the first version appeared on iOS. Still we had multiple exploits, even though they owned both sides of the code.

Now imagine a situation where you're building a sandbox and the sandboxed application is using every trick possible to try to get out.




> Now imagine a situation where you're building a sandbox and the sandboxed application is using every trick possible to try to get out.

This hellish hypothetical you pose already exists. It’s called macOS.




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