I filed a ticket with DTS, and they basically told me that "The behavior and resulting limitations you describe are by design. Safari Web Extensions must be distributed via the AppStore."
I remarked that this behavior is different for Safari App Extensions (old style) that do load and work when the container-app is notarized. I was told this about Safari WebExtensions: "It is not a bug as they were never intended to work outside of the AppStore"
All I could do was to file an Enhancement request.
Personally I still see this inconsistency as a bug.
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Safari & Web
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General
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