However, once you have installed your own root CA certificate on a computer means you can read all HTTPS traffic originating from that computer, and fake responses. Likely, thanks to having installed that certificate you can read someone's emails, move money out their bank account, and view any files they have stored online.

The effect of installing a certificate is broadly similar to the effect of installing a keylogger, and in neither case have you been given a right to do so. In both cases you have altered someone's computer in such a way that you are able to read their encrypted communications, which is certainly in the spirit of what malware means to me.

I'm sure that the intent in this case was not malicious, but we would not accept software installing a keylogger because they wish to measure your typing speed, and we should not accept this.