I mostly agree with you, but it is worth noting that most software is installwd by root but run by some "less privileged" user. That said, I still agree with yo

I mostly agree with you, but it is worth noting that most software is installwd by root but run by some "less privileged" user. That said, I still agree with you, as there is no data of value on any computer I own that is only accessible to root: all of the data that matters is in fact accessible to whatever the least privileged user that is using all of the software on that machine happens to be... on my laptop, that's me and on my database server that is my database. So really there is no difference between running software as root and running it as the "less privileged" user. Like, the idea that I care that Chromium can run software as root is nonsensical: yes, root can modify all of the software not on my computer... to what end? The only thing of value on my computer is in my home directory, owned by me... hell, thanks to a bunch of people who (incorrectly) think they can make their computers safer by running fewer things as root, a ton of executable files are in my home directory thanks to userspace package managers provided by rust and node.js, so you can even modify other software without even having to be root anymore :/. There is simply no security advantage to any of this.