Graphene and Lineage seem to making the best of a bad situation, but the former's workaround to Google's bullshit is something the other can't afford to do, which is the sole reason no fork of Android ever makes itself fully independent.
As it stands, everything is shit and all you can do is utilize the least shitty option of whatever it is you utilize; boycotts are fucking useless at the stage of societal, cultural, and governmental decay we find ourselves in.