No, I am not constructing a straw man. I got banned from both projects' official chats for talking about hardware backdoors lol

I recognize in my articles that they're useful alternatives to getting no more updates for outdated devices, but if they had people in their chat who frequently call bullshit on any lies about what a custom android ROM can actually do, that would make them a little less sus to me, and it might also result in them having fewer developers or users or something.