I have no vested interests (other than being a RescueTime user who likes apps that can also create global keystrokes) and I also think it's a bad model. I as a

I have no vested interests (other than being a RescueTime user who likes apps that can also create global keystrokes) and I also think it's a bad model. I as a user should be able to trust a piece of GUI software to have privileged access to certain things; that usually means running as root. If there were a way to define a role which was privileged but only in certain areas (such as RescueTime getting access to all window titles and perhaps some contents but that's it), then that would be a possible argument against running as root, but no such thing has been proposed here.