[mycall]

Perhaps GrapheneOS should just be an ASOP release with implicit security features that makes it hard to notice it is anything different. If people think it is a vanilla Android install, it would give them no reason to imply criminal activity.

[chasil]

Google is never going to put their administrative access in a restricted sandbox.

That is diametrically opposed to their interests in data collection.

[hedora]

They'd also have to update all their phone spec sheets -- not having the sandbox doubled graphene's battery life on my Pixel 6 Pro (in practice and vs. advertised specs).

[Cider9986]

Not worthwhile or feasible. The OS is not designed to hide its identity.