Contemplating Root

[zero neck]

My opinion...

If there a a specific thing that you want or need, that requires rooting, do it. Otherwise, you're wasting your time. And lots of it.

By wasting time and "lots of it", I don't mean just the time for rooting. I can see all the replies about (I did it in 10 minutes, etc.). I am talking about the potential time loss with the rooting procedure (what if it doesn't go right), the continuous changing of ROMs (the grass is always greener), the un-rooting to accept an update, getting "out of sync" with not being able to change the radio/ROM combination in conjunction with an OTA update, etc. Lots of potential time wasted. Unless you had a specific need. That would be different.

-Frank

In my experience, these things only take alot of time wwhile you're learning, once you've got your legs under you almost everything can be done in 15 min or less.
Of course, if you root and rom and like doing it, you may spend quite alot of time messing around with stuff.
Additionally, once you have root, you probably wont unroot for an update, bc a dev will have it ready for us first or soon afterwards.