“No, it is GEEKY... but I have better uses for my time and my brain than spending it kowtowing to the foibles of another gadget to make it work right.”
Apparently comprehending the English language is on the same level as installing a custom ROM for you. It’s to make it work BETTER, not right. Using your logic, those people who jailbreak their iPhones are “Geeky”. No, they’re not. They want INCREASED functionalilty from their devices. I had to jailbreak the iPhones I had to be able to wireless tether. And since the phones couldn’t tether out of the box, using your logic, I guess that means the phones didn’t work right, huh?
I had to root my Android phone to be able to tether without having to pay the carrier to do something the phone is already capable of doing.
To call that “GEEKY” is to put your ignorance and/or laziness on display.
It’s a phone, a consumer device. Anything more than “press this button to update your phone” is geeky. I’m a geek, I can do it, but I recognize most people aren’t. In addition, people with the intelligence to potentially do it may not want to for fear of bricking their phone, losing official support (which they will), invalidating warranties, etc.
You can root an Android or an iPhone, but you have to keep that separated, in a geek context. For the majority of users it is not a replacement for automatic, supported updates from the manufacturer or carrier.