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"I had a phone where I disabled most of its smartphone features and broke them" is not really how you get a useable OS.

Reminds me of those dudes who think a terminal console with broken bluetooth is sufficient to make a macOS Linux distro competitor.

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I mean, it was still connected to a cell network, so it was fully usable except maybe notifications. (Obviously the battery drained faster during active use)

Ah, except ONLY notifications? Wow, really not important for a smartphone. Not to mention other background operations that most people want to rely on.

See back to my point about terminal dudes with broken laptops thinking that's good enough.

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