sudoers Entry Won't Take Big Sur won't take my user entry into sudoers for some reason.  I've used both sudo visudo and nano and the entry remains.  Here's the entry:
phil            ALL = (ALL) ALL

I test it with sudo echo alpha and it asks me for my password.
Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? I can't live this way.
Yes, you should get asked for your password when you use sudo, based on the entry in sudoers you've posted - it's asking for your password to raise privilege to make sure it is really you. This is expected behaviour.
If you enter your password, and it then works, your sudoers entries are valid.