Stop parroting the corporate propaganda that put us into this stupid situation in the first place. Having root access on devices you own should be a fundamental right, as otherwise it's not ownership.
Isn’t this just a second device? How can you hold a manufacturer liable if the user was given unsupervised time as root?
PCs had root access by default, so why wasn't it a significant problem for them? Banking is possible on a PC without a banking app.
As Noam Chomsky has said, as in politics, manufacturers and OS vendors such as Google and Microsoft have been deliberately "manufacturing concent" — a widespread belief in the population of users that benefits them to the disadvantage of many of said users.
PS: While he maybe in effectively hospice now, at least he outlived Kissinger.
Right, I've never fully understood why the media was (and still is) so complicit. There's a long history of the media, especially the tech media, mags etc. ass-licking the likes of Microsoft, Google et al. It's been horrible sight to watch over the decades. Perhaps it's because of kickbacks, fear of exclusion from events, press releases, or handouts—free software etc., or that many had/have shares in such entities—or the belief that those who run such entities are only one step removed from the gods—hero worshiping.
We users would now be in a damn side better prosition if the media had done its job professionally.
"technical vocations are still frowned upon in socially most of America."
Right again, and America is not the only place, such thought is endemic across the anglosphere.