What specifically makes it "incredibly incompetently implemented", and would you simply derisively describe any system that can push updates requiring admin access a "rootkit", or is there some way you envision a "competently implemented rootkit" operating? Your opinion seems incredibly strong so I'm just curious how you arrived at it? I'm not in IT, but the idea of both rolling out updates remotely and outsourcing the timely delivery of these updates to my door* is a no brainer.
* if not directly to all my thousands of PCs without testing, which is 100% a "me" task and not a "that cloud provider over there" task
Rootkit means Crowdstrike literally intercepts commands before they can be executed in the CPU. It is like letting a third party implant a chip in your brain. If the chip thinks the command in your head is malicious, it will stop your brain from ever receiving the command.
* if not directly to all my thousands of PCs without testing, which is 100% a "me" task and not a "that cloud provider over there" task