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I applaud you but I will just add that unless you go with grapheneOS or one of the other Google free android forks, android is way worse and if anything feels MORE adversarial than iOS. Not to mention Google is the actual evil empire and android constantly tries its damndest to rat fuck you out of giving up your precious data as many ways as possible. For all of apple’s faults, they can be reasonably locked down. I wouldn’t trust a Googled phone as far as I could throw it.
+1 for GrapheneOS. Every time it comes up here people suggest buying a Chinese phone or running a Linux phone OS but never say what's actually more secure about those options. A Chinese phone just swaps Google's data collection for the manufacturer's own closed source stack. PostmarketOS can't make phone calls on most of its supported devices. The "firmware tracking" concern about Pixels applies to every phone with a cellular modem, and GrapheneOS does more to isolate that closed firmware than stock Android or any other ROM does. And it's a real daily driver now, sandboxed Google Play gets you RCS (group chats), most banking apps, even Android Auto.
I do wonder how long Google will keep making it easy to run alternative OSes on Pixels, but the Motorola partnership is a good sign there.