Only a matter of time, and then beyond architectural and (minimal) visual differences, there will be nothing to distinguish one from the other.
You want iOS, or gimped iOS?
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I just want an operating system that let's me operate my property as I see fit. Seems these days an "operating system" lets someone operate me instead. I'm not doing that, I'll throw this thing in the drink before I let some corpo put a chain around my neck.
Right now, android is that. Soon, rooted AOSP will be all there is. Soon after that we are all fucked, unless someone forks upstream and doesnt merge changes, something we should've done years ago.
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.