Yup, that's exactly what I'm saying. Why? Because anyone who is interested in the root mode already has it installed, thus won't suffer the rest of problems.

Regular users who don't care about the Linux side of things would probably do exactly the whole re-flash process by default. Would you seriously recommend rm -rf as root in order to help a "simple" user?

Having to install a package doesn't murder anyone. It's how the system is designed to work. It's not designed to fail on first use, so root is unnecessary. Things are planned according to the use cases and usage plans, not "But what if it goes wrong?" scenarios.

There is a solution to the problem, so use it.