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The reason Huawei has a distinct non-Google Android flavour poisons the whole endeavour. Huawei is registered on the US Entity List.

You can have the surveillance gulag of Google, or the surveillance gulag of the CCP. Pick your poison.

I am way too much of a small fry for the CCP to give a single fuck about me.

Google, on the other hand, can have a massive influence on my day to day life.

https://grapheneos.org/ Which has it's own set of issues, but there are choices.