Frankly I find touting how many places a person can carry either openly or concealed as long as they have a permit to be nothing to tout at all since without a permit, without the government of Utah's permission, no person can carry anywhere openly or concealed.
You might try to justify having to ask for permission by thinking being allowed to carry in many places is somehow better than more restrictive States but it is still having to ask for permission. And what is worse is even open carry needs a permit. At least, even though there are restrictions, open carry in Michigan does not need a permit. Yep, anyone can open carry in Michigan with no permit needed. To my mind, even though there are restrictions, that is more freedom than Utah.
I get it. For me, it is a matter of practicality.
If I can carry without a permit, but only in a very small number of the places my daily schedule takes me, that is far less beneficial than if I can carry everywhere I go at the cost of a shall issue, low cost permit.
If, OTOH, I can carry without a permit most everywhere I go, then that is huge.
Personally, since I have children attending school, my schedule routinely takes me onto school grounds and into school buildings. The federal GFSZ law requires me to either disarm, or have a permit. Going without a permit is not an option for me, personally until such time as my kids are all grown or we get the federal GFSZ tossed or repealed.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say... "I know I have the right to carry a gun. All I have to do is go get a permit!".
I understand the semantics. At some point, however, it comes down to practicality. If the permit is shall-issue, if the cost is not prohibitive, if the courts rule a permit must be available or if political culture is such it can't just be repealed tomorrow, we start to move into gray areas between privilege and right. Fully respected, a right requires no permit.
As an analogy, I can print and publish all I want. If I expect to operate a full newspaper, I might well expect to have to get a business license and comply with various employment laws, local zoning, and OSHA requirements. Has my "right" to speak or print freely been infringed? To some degree yes. But if the requirements to run the business are content neutral, I'm not sure the infringements rise to the level of practical concern.
Politics is the art of the possible. It is also the art of getting 320 million people in this nation (or 10 million in any given State) to live together mostly in peace. The purists and the theory is good to keep us pointed in the right direction. It is the pragmatists who actually keep us moving.
All the best.