Definitely interesting but I wouldn’t trust a rooted system to behave the same as a non-rooted system.
Nor is there any guarantee that the snapshot in time when he did his research is representative of everything they do.
And such logging behavior can vary by car, by location, and by software version.
I tend to think it is in Tesla’s interest to collect the most useful data, efficiently, and make good tradeoffs when doing so. They say they are gathering data on interventions that will help improve their neural nets. I believe them.