CWM may struggle with modern Android security features like A/B partitions or file-based encryption (FBE).

But the CWM zip retains a certain romance. TWRP feels like a modern app store; CWM felt like a BIOS screen from the 1990s. It was raw, green-on-black text that demanded you know what you were doing. It didn't hold your hand.

Creating a complete snapshot of your entire system, settings, and apps so you could restore everything if a new ROM failed.