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Why would you sudo su? That defeats the purpose of sudo.
You get tired of playing Simon Says when you're doing a lot of admin stuff at once.
If you do multiple admin commands, sudo doesn't prompt for your password. There's some time limit before having to re input it.
Logging in as root is bad security hygiene. You'll become complacent and leave it logged in at some point. That's how you get pwnd.
I want to know more. Looking past running full desktop sessions as root and inputting stupid commands when sudo su, what's the problem with having a terminal window open and escalated to root?