The main problem with rooting my phone is that a number of apps I use will stop working, including the de facto standard mobile payment app in my country. If y

The main problem with rooting my phone is that a number of apps I use will stop working, including the de facto standard mobile payment app in my country. If you rein in the notifications (ie. switch them all off), use Firefox with uBlock Origin (or Firefox Focus) and avoid using apps with obnoxious ads (or switch to the paid versions), Android as of 2017 is quite nice.