[Google Pixel 7 Pro] V0latyle:
This. Rooting =/= jailbreaking; Android phones do not need to be jailbroken because of their inherent ability to use alternative sources for software - FDroid, Aurora, even simple sideloading. While Google supports AOSP, Android is not a Google product, nor does it make any attempt to lock users into the Google ecosystem.

Contrast this with Apple - the iPhone is an Apple proprietary product, as is iOS and the Apple Store/iTunes. Apple only wants you running iOS in iPhones, and they only want you using software from the Apple Store. They've even gone to great lengths to try to prevent third party repair of their hardware. And, I'm old enough to remember that Steve Jobs threatened "thermonuclear war" on Android when it came out, simply because Apple wanted to be the exclusive player in the smartphone market. I smashed my iPod that day, and have never used an Apple device since.

Many of the projects by @phhusson include root, I believe SuperSU or some variation thereof. Magisk is in my opinion by far the best root solution available, due in large part to the fact that it is entirely open source - no secrets are hiding there.

I don't understand the whole "Pixels suck, Google is trying to screw us" sentiment, especially when one considers how blessedly simple it is to unlock the bootloader on Pixel devices. Yes, you have to use an external host running ADB platform tools to do it, but this is by design - as @yurishouse described above, any local one click root exploit is a huge security problem. Unlocking the bootloader should remain easy (as it is on Pixels) but it should also be deliberate - meaning you can't do it by accident. I would argue that anyone who isn't willing to learn the basics of ADB is just lazy.

As for ROMs and recoveries, there must be some understanding on how the modern Android platform works. Pixels do not have a recovery partition; recovery is compressed in the boot image alongside the system kernel. This is why permanently installing a custom recovery generally isn't possible - mainly because projects like TWRP do not support the compression necessary to fit into the boot image. We still have the ability to live boot the TWRP kernel, but because we can directly flash partitions via fastboot, I don't see the point in complaining.

Pixels, at least since the 3 series, are also Treble compliant. This means that they use a common system image across all Pixel builds, while device specific features are kept in additional partitions such as /product. The advent of Project Treble means that developers no longer have to build an entire ROM for each device they want to support; they can build just one Generic System Image, which can be used on pretty much any device with pretty much any kernel. As the Mandalorian would say, "This is the way."

At the end of the day, a lot of this complaining is pointless. Unlocking and rooting is no harder than it used to be. I'm not a Google fanboy by any means - I have some serious reservations about their censorship and information suppression policies as well as their treatment of content creators on YouTube - but Google has made a point of making Pixels very straightforward to bootloader unlock. They even provide user debug builds which I believe have a built-in root binary (or at the very least an elevated shell). What you do beyond that point is completely up to you - as in, why should they provide rooted boot images or custom builds - but they have made it no harder to get there. Even Play Integrity has not made things any harder for rooters and modders - it is simply an API for app developers to use that determines platform hardware and software integrity, and to my knowledge, no app developer requires hardware backed STRONG integrity. Indeed, Google's own apps and services do not detect root in of themselves - I'm using Magisk in plain sight on my otherwise stock Pixel 5, and with USNF 2.4.0, none of the Google apps complain about root.

I'd also like to point out that every single person I know has at least one PC, quite often more than that. My father is the only other technically minded person I know, and he practically collects the things. My wife and I on the other hand have 4 between the two of us, counting the 15 yr old Inspiron laptop that's buried in a box somewhere. Your average notebook/laptop these days is cheaper than a flagship smartphone or tablet.