It mainly makes me pine for linux phones. I think Graphene is the best we have at the moment in the mobile space, but that's far more of a testament to our lack of options than how valuable Graphene is. I have no doubts that we'll eventually kick Graphene to the curb when it stops being useful, so I'm not overly concerned with its future. Worst-case, I think many of us would be just fine on any other AOSP rom for a few extra years until linux phones can come save us all.

In my opinion both the evident ego of of the project lead as well as his naivety (tethering the project to Google) are huge red flags despite any assumed technical superiority.

I don't care about the community, I just care about the experience of using it.

Unless there’s drama in my updates I don’t particularly care too much about drama.

You're not the only one. It's one of my biggest reasons for staying away from it

The source code's just as transparent, and the fundamental concepts and implementations aren't going to vanish at all. If we get a future CarbonOS, so be it, but I doubt that will be in any near future scenario.

some of it is kind of inevitable when you see how far ahead from everyone else they are technically and when people shitting on their work just aren't at their (technical) level it seems to be very draining. and eventually lead to dramas.

i might just fork grapheneos and rewrite everything.

Too be fair (not French but aware of their culture and government) the French are pretty smart, for people and don’t fuck around with serious issues. I bet you if they got access, it wouldn’t be long till issue a long warning before a ban if it were to cause harm to others.