I'm overall still skeptical, but this does sound a lot more like how I imagine a true AI would work. I've also thought LLMs were a dead end for a while now.
It is canon in the Daft Punk Cinematic Universe that Mozart was an alien, so Beethoven being one is not out of line, and they could be blending in with his planet.
Their point is we can't get it because of a federal law that Congress would need to change. That same law allows permanent standard time right now, so that would be better than keeping switching twice a year while waiting for the legislature to do their job, even if permanent DST would be nicer.
I think the main pushers of the 'root = insecure' narrative are movie and music studios who think only rooted users can rip their media. Banks have also bought into thinking root means compromised for some reason.
The phone OEMs themselves and the carriers also tend to dislike root because they like to have as much control over the users as they can get, such as system installed spyware which rooted users are likely to disable, or overwrite with a completely different ROM.
That's a good point, and I considered mentioning it, but I mean the overall setting.