This is probably a moment where you should reflect on the fact that you’re not someone with any idea what you’re talking about. That probably sounds like I’m just trying to be an asshole, but no, I just mean that literally…you’re talking like someone who learns that lightbulbs emit radiation and is now condemning them because you think it’s going to give you cancer (it’s not that kind of radiation).

The reason it disables it is because it’s an entire processor unit which stores your fingerprint data onboard and is entirely isolated from the rest of the system so that it cannot be compromised or overridden. It is a security system on the *hardware* level, and if you could just swap a new one in, someone could then unlock your phone just by swapping it out. A secure enclave system is so secure on a state-of-the-art level in large part *because* of the anti-tampering properties built into it.

Some random redditor who knows nothing about how any of this works calling people “cunts” for making the, to date, most secure authentication system ever put on a mobile device isn’t really the one anyone is going to look to for insight on this topic.