[drnick1]

For me the main reason to stick to FOSS Android ROMs (over a Linux phone) is that you retain compatibility with thousands of very good FOSS and non-FOSS apps. There is Waydroid, and it works very well, but if you are primarily running Android apps, an Android device makes more sense.

[WD-42]

Isn't the Android rom scene in shambles? What phone would you have to buy now to be able to even run decent a decent custom ROM?

[jhasse]

No. One of these: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

[drnick1]

Graphene and Lineage work great on Pixel 9s.