[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] Android.Ninja:
Sorry, we'll have to agree to disagree, lol, however "Root" has bot been achieved. Yes, Samsung Write Protection is embedded and causing a real delimea at this point in progress so far. However that's just exactly the point, progress. The wording or terminology used to describe root whether it be called "temporary root" or "permanent root" does nothing for the fact that root still has not been achieved. Let's take a look here for a better definition of root for clarification.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_(Android_OS)

Rooting (Android OS)

Rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as root access) over various Android's subsystems. As Android uses the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative permissions as on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD or OS X.

Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers and hardware manufacturers put on some devices. Thus, rooting gives the ability (or permission) to alter or replace system applications and settings, run specialized apps that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user. On Android, rooting can also facilitate the complete removal and replacement of the device's operating system, usually with a more recent release of its current operating system.

Root access is sometimes compared to jailbreaking devices running the Apple iOS operating system. However, these are different concepts. Jailbreaking describes the bypass of several types of Apple prohibitions for the end user: modifying the operating system (enforced by a "locked bootloader"), installing non-officially approved apps via sideloading, and granting the user elevated administration-level privileges. Only a minority of Android devices lock their bootloaders, and many vendors such as HTC, Sony, Asus and Google explicitly provide the ability to unlock devices, and even replace the operating system entirely.[1][2][3] Similarly, the ability to sideload apps is typically permissible on Android devices without root permissions. Thus, it is primarily the third aspect of iOS jailbreaking relating to giving users superuser administrative privileges that most directly correlates to Android rooting.

Now to further clarify; let's look at this paraphrase as listed above:

Thus, rooting gives the ability (or permission) to alter or replace system applications and settings, run specialized apps that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user.

At this time we cannot replace or modify system applications and or settings, to the extent to some even so much as not even being able to make a change to a system file and even so before, at that point the the change was made, then the write protection kicks in forcing a hard boot. This is occurring because "root" which by the terms and definition as listed above has bot been achieved.

Now to look more closely and say that "root" has been achieved and that it is just "Samsung Write Protection" that is preventing the change or changes to stick upon completion is true in it's own statement. However if root was intact and achieved, the "Samsung Write Protection" would not enact and reverse those said changes upon the time it's made or even after reboot, loss of power, etc.

Some specialized apps that require administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal android user are not able to be run Only minutes before they are reversed by the "Samsung Write Protection" thus facilitating even further that root has not been achieved.

Yes "Root" and "Samsung Write Protection" are two separate items in itself. However you cannot remove some system wide apps, make some permission changes, because full and unadulterated root has not been achieved. Wether it be by definition or by what the end user facilitates, when those formentioned changes / modifications stay in tact and true upon reboot or by means of loss of power, root is unprecedentedly not in effect.

Progress is being made to enable root features to run for a limited and very limited time, however that's just progress, not full root.

---------- Post added at 05:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:50 AM ----------

Wrong, root is root. The focus is on obtaining full root as the thread title indicates, lol. Not by definition of enabling or disabling features to obtain root. Progress is only being made at this time for temporary root to move towards full root.

---------- Post added at 05:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:53 AM ----------

And what happens after reboot or upon removal or modification of system privlaged files? Those changes get reversed.