The problem is people accepting not having root on things they own. It's absolutely absurd that someone would accept having mission-critical devices without root access.

The problem is fake, it shouldn't exist. I don't feel bad because the choice to be in the situation where your phone can be messed in a serious way without an easy way out is 100% self inflicted. Allowing the proliferation of devices that you don't control is FAR FAR FAR worse for society than me bricking some iPhones. If even one person thinks critically about the situation they've allowed themselves to exist in as a result of having their phone bricked by something so silly I consider myself to be doing a moral good.

This is hacker news after all.