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Also, if someones DOES have this ability and gets found out, e.g. someone finds the certificate, it makes it clear someone had that ability. You'll know that root CA is compromised one way or another and it potentially gets burnt.

Thus, they'll only use it under the strictest smallest of circumstances where the reward outweighs the risk, in a high profile scenario, rather than rolling it out willy nilly.

Similar to when threat actors use a 0day.. if they use it all the time it eventually gets discovered and fixed. If they save it for a special case they may manage to use it a couple of times before it gets patched.