I’ve heard it put this way: if you give the user root on the device, you are giving the malware the user is tricked into installing root. iOS is an OS for peop

I’ve heard it put this way: if you give the user root on the device, you are giving the malware the user is tricked into installing root. iOS is an OS for people who are non-technical or for applications where people don’t want to worry about that stuff. If you want full control run Linux. MacOS and Windows also offer a balance that is skewed a lot more toward user control because they’re for “pro” use cases.