I’m surprised they would make an unpopular move like this.
Because it's only unpopular to a niche audience. Granted, those buying a Zenfone are niche, but still. They stand to make more by locking the phones down for Samsung-level bullshit than they do from the customers they'll lose here.
Lol still the motherboard circlejerk when they fixed it in a week, if you like walled gardens just say so, u dont know any person irl rooting their phone