We hear this “Apple has done everything you could only get with a jailbreak so jailbreaking is now obsolete” every year, yet we still see neat new system-level

We hear this “Apple has done everything you could only get with a jailbreak so jailbreaking is now obsolete” every year, yet we still see neat new system-level functionality ideas show up all the time. Plenty of new ideas came about from jailbreakers in the “post-limera1n” era (2014 - present) including ones you’ve mentioned. I’d be certain this will open the floodgates to a plethora of new ideas, simply because it’ll soon be far less risky to develop jailbreak things (no need to be concerned about soft-bricking your phone, forcing you to restore to the latest, probably non-jailbreakable iOS version). The workarounds employed by the latest jailbreaks to avoid triggering security checks also made it just that little bit more annoying to work with. Developers being able to run in a “fully jailbroken, anything goes” state like the jailbreaks of yesteryear, as well as being able to develop on top of iOS beta releases, would encourage development once more. And no terminal app in the App Store compares to actually running your code on bare metal with no clever workarounds required to make Apple happy. I don’t want to add network delays (mosh is great but still just isn’t the same) and worry about transferring files around, or force myself to run inside an emulated, fenced-off world (iSH). It’s just easier to run programs like, well, actual programs. This is why I develop NewTerm, a local terminal app for iOS, and am a huge fan of Termux on Android which neatly packages an entire self-contained ecosystem that still runs on bare metal.