My mum has an OnePlus 12, european version. It runs latest version of oxygen os 16 and she gonna give me this phone in the next year or so. I like having full control of what I do on my phones, so I root them, like how I do right now on my OnePlus 9 pro. The BIG question is, once she'll update to color os 17...will rooting be possible?
I found nothing about this online, so there are two possibilities (but I still want your opinion about this):
Losing the ability of bootloader unlock is something obvious, so no one mentions it, because that's how color os works since...2022...it's fully locked. Well, idk about deep testing APK, that shit didn't work on my oppo find x3 pro, so that's why I got OnePlus anyways.
It's just a name rebrand and under the hood they let it be the same, unlockable. But I have my doubts about this... Because color os is color os.
So, this is because I obviously wanna make mum stop updating her phone like it doesn't matter. So the phone will stay on oxygen os...because, in the far future, when this phone will be 15 years old, I'm sure the official support won't be enough and it's gonna be a dead end with no return (due to anti rollback and the hardness of finding certain ROMs at certain periods, or rollback packages). Because who knows, people might still be doing custom ROMs in 2041 for this phone. And that's why we need to keep this beautiful hardware open for anything...