I am just personally opposed to Google having all that much access to my data, which is quite funnily only possible to prevent on an android by having.. a pixel

I am just personally opposed to Google having all that much access to my data, which is quite funnily only possible to prevent on an android by having.. a pixel and installing GrapheneOS on top. Sure, lineage and such exist for other phones as well, but people seem to forget that it is not some thinkpad where you can just swap the OS to your liking — plenty of phones have proprietary firmware that auto-wipes on reinstall. I wouldn’t want my fancy, expensive S-twenty-X’s camera to become essentially garbage.