Every time I deal with Android I hate it more. Trying to prep for moving data to a new phone, and there's a malicious "allowBackup=false" property apps can have that even purportedly pro-user Android dists are honoring and providing no way to override.
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Just the same shit as all those mindboggingly useless dumbfucks trying to tell me why I shouldn't have root on my own devices.
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Users being able to go through a process to get a non-persistent root shell is fine. It's apps being able to get it which is problematic, especially persistently.
A proper approach is the user needing to do a key combo in early boot and then they can use a root shell post-login.
We've though about providing official userdebug builds of GrapheneOS signed with separate keys but we don't like the approach of providing it via adb. It should be possible to use it on-device. adb also has a sketchy persistent network access feature which is problematic...