Btw it comes with passwordless recovery / emergency mode. Hopefully this release won’t block you from gaining root. This is well tested in Whonix VM VirtualBox builds. When you’r ready to test… Keep your time… Still having gain root issues?
In case there are still gain root issues, I could invent a kernel boot parameter adminrootcreate or so which creates user admin with group sudo membership and default password changeme for debugging purposes in next build.
Also news, root account disabled by default: