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ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones
(www.androidauthority.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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From the article it seems that there's confusion around that at ASUS. Support staff are saying unlocking the bootloader isn't and won't be possible, but at the end of the article you also have this: >A Reddit user claims that the company’s developer liaison on its Telegram channel has no knowledge of any such development. “According to them, the unlock tool server is in maintenance and will resume in Q3,” the person writes.
Those big companies usually don't have great inter-department communications, we'll just have to wait and see if it's true or not.
Yeah, hopefully this is just a whole misunderstanding, as there's not much reason for them to stop allowing bootloader unlocks for the people that want them.