I'd like to address the increasingly complaints of "Magisk is too bloated" argument.
Right off the bat: Magisk is first a systemless module framework, and then a root solution. Root is trivial with the foundation of the systemless infrastructure Magisk has created.
Right off the bat: Magisk is first a systemless module framework, and then a root solution. Root is trivial with the foundation of the systemless infrastructure Magisk has created.
With the increasingly complexity of modern Android, unless you build a custom ROM changing the code, you HAVE to rely on all the "bloat" to achieve root, period. People might not realize how difficult things have become, and unfairly compare Magisk to "the good old root software"
So the REAL bloat in Magisk is MagiskHide, and I agree it is such a dirty hack. However, if you look at the grand picture, at least in previous years, I would say 80% of users *EXPECT* root to be hidden. You cannot achieve hiding without it deeply integrated into the framework.
Already in the latest stable Magisk, I had disabled MagiskHide by default so a clean Magisk install would be 100% clean "no bloat root only". With MagiskHide disabled, none of the zygote ptracing, messing with mount namespace, resetprop hacks will run AT ALL.
If you want a so-called "clean root" implementation, you basically just install Magisk, DO NOT enable MagiskHide, and DO NOT install ANY modules. No unnecessary code will run. I don't understand how difficult this is to accept. And yet people still call Magisk a "rootkit" 🙄
Now changing focus to Magisk Manager: the app is indeed *extremely complex*, and if you insist, bloated. The app is feature rich, with the complexity mainly comes from the ability to install/download Magisk itself and modules, both I value critical to the success of Magisk.
I consider Magisk Manager a separate component to the "native" part of Magisk. Sometimes I use it as a playground to experiment with "new technology" involved with general Android app development, just for fun. I definitely will not tout the app as a fine piece of software 😉
In conclusion: while strongly defending Magisk's native side, I humbly accept all kinds of criticism against Magisk Manager and I work really hard trying to improve it. Magisk Manager is the easiest entry-point of contributing to Magisk, so I widely welcome people to join along!
