Yes, Niantic was very lazy in their attempts to stop spoofers and botters. Rather than write some code to actually look for the few pieces of software the chea

Yes, Niantic was very lazy in their attempts to stop spoofers and botters. Rather than write some code to actually look for the few pieces of software the cheaters are using, they just started invoking Android's SafetyNet. Notably, very little was accomplished. The problem? SafetyNet does not care about game spoofers/cheaters. That's literally not what it was designed to do. Pokemon Go does not represent "planned obsolescence". It represents Niantic being too damn lazy to search an array result for "Xposed" and instead invoking something that will make it look like they expended some effort. It takes about five minutes to make a stock CyanogenMod device "compatible" with SafetyNet. All you have to do is rename two files, specifically /system/xbin/su and /system/bin/su. Boot into recovery (TWRP or whatever you have), and start a terminal from there (where you are as "root" as root gets, and this will always be so) and type `mount /system` to start. Next, rename those two files. Lastly unmount /system and boot normally. SafetyNet will be happy, which means Pokemon Go and Android Pay will also be happy. If you want "root access" back on your phone, all you have to do is go back into recovery and rename those two files back to what they were.