> is microG still a viable alternative to GApps or is there something else that’s taken its place? microG is still viable afaik, but I prefer GrapheneOS's sand

> is microG still a viable alternative to GApps or is there something else that’s taken its place? microG is still viable afaik, but I prefer GrapheneOS's sandboxed google play approach since it's much more feature complete, and supports e.g. my 2fa hardware key, while that's currently missing from microG. > The ROM community, especially those that cared about privacy, was quite small few years ago, especially for non-Pixel devices Yeah Pixel devices are still the only ones you can expect to be supported by GrapheneOS and CalyxOS etc..., for anything else I think your best bet is to install LineageOS(formerly cyanogenmod) and microG if you can accept the current https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status