Honest question, because I'm not part of that scene (yet) at all: I seem to remember that I have read mentions of GrapheneOS for years now, but does this news

Honest question, because I'm not part of that scene (yet) at all: I seem to remember that I have read mentions of GrapheneOS for years now, but does this news mean it has been practically vaporware the whole time? Google making Android a walled garden just as bad as iOS shows how important projects like this and its siblings are. I'm impatiently waiting for more Jolla phones to become available, but something like GrapheneOS might be a viable alternative.