> even if I jailbreak my iOS and never let it update.

Two things:

a) Why the would you never want to update an OS in this day and age ?

b) I understand the perspective of people insisting on wanting to be able to root their phone. But how about we take a step back and look at the reality of the 2026 security environment ? An environment where you have:

     - Increasing volumes of increasingly sneaky security exploits on one side
     - A phone with your 2FA apps, your banking apps, your email apps, your kids photos on the other

Frankly. I want Apple to lock down my iPhone as much as possible in that context.

If I want to be root, I can do so on my desktop or a cloud VM or whatever.

But making root on a phone easy just seems like a recipe for disaster... if its easy for you, its easy for the bad guys too.