[lrvick]

If you do not mind running an endless pile of proprietary software and granting several third parties the right to track you and have remote root access to your device via hundreds of binary blobs, then Android is great. Even CalyxOS and GrapheneOS cannot escape the hell that is the vendor partition. Not to mention binary blobs from Qualcomm etc that target particular kernel versions which guarantee your hardware will be a brick in 2-4 years when it is no longer possible to use modern kernels because Qualcomm moved on to new chipsets and abandoned the last gen.

I spent the better part of a year doing Android OS dev only to conclude there just is no way to trust it or make it sustainable.

The Librem 5, Pinephone, and the Precursor are shaping up to be decent options. For now no phone at all suits me fine.