[lupusreal]

We have that, it's called android.

Anybody who finds themselves using sudo is already well off the beaten path, by their own choice. There's nothing wrong with that.

[charcircuit]

Doing system updates is not off the beaten path.

[lupusreal]

Using GNU/Linux at all is. Choosing to use such an operating system and then also choosing to do your updates from a terminal emulator is even further off the beaten path.

The beaten path is the defaults. Windows and MacOS particularly.

[theamk]

And system updates don't need sudo on desktops, it is not 1990's anymore... GUI apps like software-properties-gtk use dbus with polkit auth to upgrade software without any involvement of "sudo" or giving root access to users.