Rooting it makes it that much more of a better experience. Especially the locking as every time it applies an update you end up at the lock screen which always seems to be at the most inconvenient time. This was the biggest driver for me, but I did run it for a while without rooting just fine as well.
One of the things I do instead of turning off the screen though is have it display a slideshow of pictures from out drop box. Me and the wife just have to drop our favorite pics into a dropbox folder if it’s added to the slideshow.
To use the fully kiosk browser you will need the plus license. But it’s worth it. I added a bunch of new features in the latest update but the feature don’t work with sites that use https like sharptools but I’m working on a work around to at least get some of them working. It works perfectly fine with built in dashboards.
