While it's obviously bad that people are making malware with this key, I do wonder if there could be a silver lining. Samsung and Google lock a lot of cool perm

While it's obviously bad that people are making malware with this key, I do wonder if there could be a silver lining. Samsung and Google lock a lot of cool permissions behind system apps. I wonder if you could use this key to sign you own apps (or make modified versions of existing system apps) and get the benefits of rooting without actually rooting (especially on devises that don't allow unlocking the bootloader)?