The background story of the project is quite sad, so it sort of makes sense that he is very defensive of it. (The project got some monetary support initially from a company, which later tried to hijack the whole open-source project (going by copperhead os nowadays, I believe). Fortunately thanks to Micay the original was unharmed (he revoked private keys, big kudos!), but they do throw shade at GrapheneOS promoting their shady fork in many relevant threads)

Nonetheless, he is an excellent security researcher who has an excellent track record of prioritizing the security of his userbase, even if he may (more or less validly) be a bit overly defensive over it.

Is there a reason why you yourself have started this thread with a personal attack on the author?

You've repeatedly engaged in harassing me and spreading fabricated stories about me. Your community comes to most of these threads and does this. It's getting old.

Could you elaborate on what you consider personal attack? The bar is extremely low these days, and I have an experience of the opposite: One day I was inspecting the traffic from my GOS device with tcpdump, and I noticed lookups and traffic to the connectivity test servers going outside my VPN. I raised this in the IRC channel, and criticised the lack of option to turn them off or route them via the VPN on the basis that it leaked metadata. The main developer disagreed that it constituted a security issue. After considerable back and forth, I took it upon myself to implement the feature. Before I got round to it, I found it in the next update of GOS. GOS is the single most reliable android distro I have ever used by a considerable margin.

Talk about a tangent.