Hey, I can answer that! Because me and my family have always had Verizon and when I recently went through alllllll the devices I have ever owned, I would need to go back to circa 2010's Galaxy S7 to be able to get a rooted device, which as Claude keeps reminding me, "isn't what I want, but might be good enough"....

Raspberry PI's don't give me near the struggle and I never dumbly signed a contract that I didn't really own the device I was purchasing (that I am completely aware of)