Again not requiring a root shell for daily use is a different topic from taking active steps from letting the "owner" of the hardware from having root. Not runn

Again not requiring a root shell for daily use is a different topic from taking active steps from letting the "owner" of the hardware from having root. Not running as root is common sense security, we already don't use root users for daily applications on desktop and server linux, and if you want to harden it further, good. You can harden your own pc as much as you want, you can run each app in its own user, apply SE Linux etc...but you have root access to it and can wipe it whole and install anything else if you want on it. Thats whats missing on phones, and we all know why.