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It's not surprising you can remove it, but it seems contrary to teaching good habits to not install it by default as a basic utility. You don't want to train people to log in as root
Actually I think the only way I can log in as root is sudo -i
Pretty sure root has /bin/false as its shell and it's configured as no login my machines