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jcp007 That's my concern. The GS6 is one expensive brick.
Obviously don't be an early adopter to rooting or custom roms, but I've done it before in the past and you'd have to be pretty stupid and not be able to follow directions to turn your phone into a brick. Again, I'm assuming that you are following steps after it has been released for a while and you let other people take the risk with working out any bugs. I really don't see any reason to do it with new phones. You wouldn't buy a phone if you didn't like how it is.
When I can see it being valuable is a year or two or three down the line when Samsung no longer cares or the carriers no longer care to push out new versions of Android in a timely manner. If a new version of Android is out that has features that you really want or is way more efficient and will help your battery life, then I can see how rooting to upgrade your phone would make sense.