[pdkl95]

> Honest question: do you hate root? Should all processes run with equal privileges?

Of course not. Stop making up straw-man arguments.

> Without them, their devices – the ones you insist they should own – would quickly become someone else's: the attacker's

So users cannot run any program they download? Or are you claiming that programs that run as a user - with no intention of touching system files - cannot harm that same user? Many past exploits and trojans run entirely as the user.

SIP may protect the OS, but it will do very little to protect the user. Unfortunately, while this should be obvious, scaring people into giving up their freedom works, even when the "solution" doesn't actually do much (or anything) to prevent the supposed threat.