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It feels just like a regular phone to me. If I handed someone my phone they wouldn't know it was GrapheneOS. The only thing they would fund weird is my launcher (KISS, which is certainly not for everyone) but that was something I installed myself.
One pain point is that my banking apps didn't work out of the box. That was solved by checking an unassuming box in the individual app settings. For some banks it might still not work (mostly for countries that have security key devices, I believe).
I don't have the adaptive battery charge feature that Pixels normally have, where it slows charging in certain conditions, to improve battery longevity. GrapheneOS's version of this is just a simple option to stop charging at 80%.
Probably my camera is less good that stock Pixel, but I can't tell. It seems fine to me