google won the war against alt roms a long time ago. my phone is rooted but i can't flash it with a new rom because they make it too difficult to make roms that work on all hardware, deliberately. my phone is rooted because i want to leave it in my house, plugged in, all the time, and the default charger software overcharges phones left in this state.

but i'm still stuck with google everything on the phone, without extraordinary effort to remove all of the pieces.