If you have a 6p or 5x and not rooted wouldn’t bother , I reckon it will get assistant soon enough.
I was once in the camp that if you wasn’t rooting and romming there is something wrong with you, as stock (all Rims and skins )was lacking and by rooting you was opening up lots of pros.
That time has past , rooting now breaks more than it fixes. My last rooted phone was the M8, bit even then there was alot of negatives to turning ‘s-off’ and rooting.
It’s not worth the hassle. If it’s for tertiary device go have a play, but if it’s your primary or secondary don’t bother.
That work around ed was found before the pixel even launched. It may of been the day of ,it was piblisised.