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I frustratingly have to agree.
I've been a privacy advocate for 20+ years, and people kept calling me paranoid. I may be, but (as my hillbilly uncle would say), "ya gotta look at who's ox is gettin' gored" (kind of a redneck version of no such thing as a free lunch).
No one does something without an angle (that is businesses, and many people too).
I post about rooting and people reply with "you don't need root, it's a security risk". Right, because all the Linux and windows boxes I've touched over the years, with root access, are insecure 🤦♂️.
This is my phone. Not Google's, nor anyone else's.
Too many people are content viewing anything as complex as a toaster as magic. They just want the results.
"that's a security risk"
My reasonse is always along the lines of "Yeah and? It's a pocket-sized PC with PC-like specs being sold at PC-like prices. I'd like my workhorse to be functional. I can monitor my device as best I can, and vet the things I install."
Yep.
I keep telling them that security isn't one thing, it's layers.
There are many unrooted phones that have had malware installed courtesy of the Play store... I've never had any, and none of my pc's since about 1990 have never had a virus.