Comment by mdaniel
Well, one will observe that I said "off grid," because I was acutely aware of the desire for them to approve OS reinstalls
I know, "but muh sekurity" and all that, but when the grandkids find an antique iPhone 16 in a barn somewhere, and want to install an iOS image upon it to see how things were in the old-times, I want that to be technically possible even after Apple shuts down the old gatekeeping servers
That's not possible because the requirement is built into the ROM. They'd have to release the keys and then you could emulate it.