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>On the other hand, I don't see any mainline Galaxies newer than the S5 on the device list.

They started locking their bootloaders, and nobody has been able to bypass the lock.

That can't be right, as e.foundation sell S7 and S9 preloaded. I haven't done it, but flashing instructions are at https://doc.e.foundation/devices/starlte/install for example.

The international Exynos version is crackable. The one that matters, the Snapdragon version that will work with US networks is not cracked.

You mean "the one that matters" to you? You realize most people don't live in the US, right?

Also, people that live in the US and don't want Qualcomm's insecure-by-design integrated baseband/application processors.

Shouldn't Exynos version work with US networks, too? It's all GSM, after all.

Kind of. The US has some different frequency allocations so it won't work in all areas.