Hi @aibd, than you for taking the time to respond.
Thank you!
Thank you! I was expecting to get some mockery and derision, so I’m pleasantly surprised. This speaks well for the community.
Well, I sure thought so! I’ve been running around with a rooted phone in my pocket for the last 8 years or so… 
But it looks like I did it wrong this time! 
I know, they make that quite clear in their docs. None of the custom ROMs do, these days.
I assume they know that there are some valid reasons why people may still want or need to have root access to their devices, even today.
The problem with that guide is that it does not actually provide what everyone else would consider “root access”. Rooted Debugging is fair and well – and you can then run adb root; adb shell from a computer and do stuff as root user on your phone via this patch – but it does not give root access to any of the apps actually running on the phone, which is what everybody else means when they talk about rooting.
And this “rooting guide” treats enabling rooted debugging as equivalent with rooting via Magisk, which is definitely not the case.
So that doc page is bad and misleading and it should either be removed or rewritten.
Yes, it is the first flash command. I let the script “run” for over an hour and a half, but it never got unstuck.
I then tried to flash TWRP recovery (there’s a guide for that in the /e/ docs, too!), but that also got stuck immediately at sending the first image to the device.
I will start a new thread about this. Thanks for the suggestion.
Let’s hope you’re right!
Yes, that’s nice about Fairphone. I’ve tried it, of course, and it didn’t help. Hadn’t mentioned it, though.