It's even worser, tons of applications are not working properly if your phone is rooted (so if you put there proper adblocker etc.) or without google apps.
Magisks have stopped providing patches to games that helped to bypass root detection.
But for people thinking about it, its still worth it, with Afwall+ to not have ads in any app, newpipe to have functionality of youtube premium and barinsta to make sure you are not dragged into endless reels recommendations on instagram, its magic.
I use a Pi-Hole in my LAN, and Wireguard to it. Low latency so works very well, and given it has a killswitch my connection is always secure -- public WLAN or WAN be damned. The downside is my device and all apps have access to my LAN. Although some of my devices are on a DMZ, and the Pi-Hole works from there as well but the rest of the LAN not.
[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.austinhuang.instagrabber/
Personally, I gave up on root when it became too much of a hassle to maintain, which was after Android 4.4 as far as I remember.