what do you think about going through the /bin /usr/local/bin
/sbin/...etc. and making certain commands to be only executable by root. like for instance the su command (i guess not a good example because i use that one often because i dont log in as root). But you get my point.

I noticed that many of the programs tell you that you have to be root to run em so it may be pointless. Any thoughts though?

AFAIK there is no valid reason to do so wrt apps that need root privileges to perform certain tasks that are either already owned by root.

OTOH, taking away suid/sgid bits and using sudo to grant authorization would be a valid reason, or having dev tools like compilers in a separate group. Then again dev tools shouldn't be on servers...

Another reason would be in the "security by obscurity" category, taking away any g+o rights to mask an app being there. There are many workarounds for finding out, so that's not a valid reason and the result would only give you a false sense of security.