As I get older and get other responsibilities, I want to be admin of fewer and fewer things. Same reason I replaced my Linux fileserver with a Synology. I'll let someone else stay on top of the security issue du jour.
If you have a OnePlus (which come more or less rooted) or a Samsung (Which has a lot of community support), you can probably root it pretty easily. But a lot of other phones lack the manufacturer's blessing or the community's support, leaving you SOL unless you can find an exploit yourself.
> (I still don't get how this is an unpopular opinion.)
Not unpopular, just unrealistic. You can't do it on an iPhone, and if you're doing local web development you really ought to be checking it on an iPhone.
