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Systemless root + root hiding is a thing.

I run a custom rom and pass safety check and have access to all my apps including banking.

This is why people need to start rejecting closed ecosystems. If you own the hardware you can control everything that happens on it including companies trying to force their will upon you

more people would reject them if there were alternatives, but the only things on the horizon are pinephone and purism (neither which are really shipping/working)

Any information on this. I thought rooting was essentially dead

I have an S5 with Magisk. It passes the safetynet checks, and I can choose to specifically hide root status from apps, which has worked well so far.

Google can turn Safetynet validation up or down w/o updating your Droid. Currently it is possible to bypass SafetyNet, but they did turn it up a notch lately, and if they require strong "Key Attention" then neither Magisk nor custom "rootless root" will work (and it will also mean that custom roms Will fail SafetyNet).

https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-key...

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