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- The thing about root access is just objectively untrue. These are the steps to gain root access on macOS as provided by Apple. Meanwhile, I can find no official tutorial from Google, and more importantly, enabling developer mode wipes your Chromebook. I legitimately cannot imagine what on god's green Earth you did to make the macOS process more painstaking than wiping your device.
- Even if your premise weren't demonstrably untrue, this isn't a discussion about what you can theoretically do with a device; it's about the kind of workflow the device would encourage for a typical student using it. In this regard, a Chromebook is massively dumbed down. Sure you might dip into the downloads folder, but Chrome OS by design encourages the use of web apps as much as humanly possible and severely restricts your ability and incentives to meaningfully interact with your OS outside of a browser.
- Even assuming that the process of gaining root access mattered to this discussion (it categorically doesn't), what you can and cannot do with that root access would matter far more, and in that unrelated discussion, macOS clearly still wins out (unless you'd want to argue that developer mode lets you install Linux, at which point this is no longer about Chrome OS).