I've been running LineageOS (and its predecessor Cyanogenmod) for 6 years now across three phones, currently a Moto G5 Plus. Have also set it up for several oth

I've been running LineageOS (and its predecessor Cyanogenmod) for 6 years now across three phones, currently a Moto G5 Plus. Have also set it up for several other people. Subjectively, the overall stability and quality has improved drastically in the past few years. It's almost certainly better than the stock build of Android on most phones. Performance and battery life is improved without Google Spy Services always running in the background. It feels great to run a (mostly) surveillance-free smartphone that answers to me, and only me. If you do need an app from the Google Play Store in a pinch, Yalp Store gives you access to that, and most of them work well enough. For the occasional app that really needs Google Spy Services, I keep an older 'burner' phone around which runs the factory-default build of Android.