I'm happy to hear that the Fairphone is getting regular updates, and I'm very happy with my Fairphone 4.
And it's still possible to switch to LineageOS if you want to. (I've been meaning to try, but haven't had the energy to do it.)
And it's still possible to switch to LineageOS if you want to. (I've been meaning to try, but haven't had the energy to do it.)
There are some good signs. LineageOS 19 & 19.1 has done a very good job getting Android 12L on all kinds of old phones, which shows incredible incredible promise that Android has never had before. Many predate Project Treble (hoisting drivers to run in userland, targetting an Android framework not-a-kernel (but kind of also it's own different kernel), rather than targeting the ever-moving kernel), but supposedly that will help keep things moving forward too.
And I'm probably just missing something or expecting to much... but there are sooo few moderately current phones supported. The LineageOS 20.0 nightlies[1] page has a few dozen phones. And the lion's share harken from considerably before 2020. I'm shopping for phones (with my current touchscreen cracked & digitizer quite on the fritz now), and this has been quite chilling an indicator.