I have my reservations. The cats can also use AI to make their software less buggy or even formally verified.

If I had to venture a guess it would be that this is the last stand for hackers that are able to root all kinds of older devices, but companies like Apple will shell out the money to prevent this for their next-gen devices.

It's likely that low-cost device makers will not do that, so maybe rooting will still persist for cheap stuff.