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I’ve heard it put this way: if you give the user root on the device, you are giving the malware the user is tricked into installing root.

iOS is an OS for people who are non-technical or for applications where people don’t want to worry about that stuff. If you want full control run Linux. MacOS and Windows also offer a balance that is skewed a lot more toward user control because they’re for “pro” use cases.