Is there an analog for an extinction level event of our own creation and which persisted because of a variety of absolutely crawl reasons even after denial became the domain of idiots?

I’m beginning to think you’re engaging a particularly bad bot.

You guys are getting interviews?

Sounds like someone at Microsoft finally got fed up with the “fix my printer” jokes

In that case leave the files alone for where they’re located.

You could install sudo instead of jumping into a root shell every time you need to do root privileged tasks.

For the first question, are you using a package manager? If so, I’d say leave it alone. For the second question, your root will likely still be bash unless you changed it yourself.