This is why I go out of my way to only buy phones that are going to be very well supported by LineageOS for a long time. You can go Google-less on such devices

This is why I go out of my way to only buy phones that are going to be very well supported by LineageOS for a long time. You can go Google-less on such devices if you want. The only real limitation is that you cannot do anything about the super-privileged proprietary modem that simultaneously can spy on you at any time that also prevents you from running newer kernels on your hardware because of how evil every Android vendor is with their proprietary bits. At least there is finally momentum to kill the ME / SP backdoors on desktops. Its going to be much harder to do that on mobile since the only way to use cellular networks is through these proprietary black box modems.