[jamesjamesdupre]

No it is not besides the point. They are not supposed to ship a setup where physical access escalates to permanent spying with no warnings because they are promising things about devices not about an ecosystem's overall functionality to build any possible configuration.

Many people feel Google and Apple have ulterior motives, but that is an academic argument unless they abandon this motive, at that point they need to always ship rooted insecure boot phones for our ease of use.