Comment by palata

I guess my point is that it is a bit of a gradient. You say you want Stock Android to allow you to get root access, others will say that Stock Android should not allow a normie to be tricked into getting root access and shooting themselves in the foot. Truth is, none of those is a "right": there is a product (Android) that tries to do well for the vast majority of its users. It seems totally reasonable to me that Google doesn't want to invest a lot of resources into making an extremely small minority happy. I am pretty sure that the number of people who want root on their smartphone is a rounding error.

Second thing is: if you have root and change something on the system, you break the secure boot. So you fundamentally cannot have full access, can you?

That's why my opinion is that it's not Google's role to make everyone happy. They should just not be allowed to prevent alternatives. So that the rounding error minority can install the system they want and be happy with it.