Seconded. With GrapheneOS, all google services become opt-in, and you basically are in charge of your own phone again. Did it myself last week, really easy to do + free.

What the actual hell. I am going to be a revenge pirate now

Can you elaborate on this? I am planning to preorder a Jolla phone, bad idea in your opninion?

For me, having control over my own system outweighs this. Might be naive though. Plus, I want to support these kind of initiatives.

Honestly, I am running GrapheneOS (o7 to the devs, btw) until my Pixel 6a dies, and then I am switching to Jolla + SailfishOS. There is nothing more maddening to me than seeing Microslop and Google slowly filling their ecosystem with irremovable invasive bloatware and basically blocking a free market.