Fuck I misread the whole point on performance.

No, that’s not the case I’m making here, my point is that Graphene (and any custom android rom for that matter) is not an Android “hardfork”, nor can it ever be, meaning that they can’t compete with android and build anything on top without playing the cat and mouse game of trying to keep up with the AOSP.

Sure you lose on the established ecosystem but that’s part of the cost in being a proper alternative.

If we keep reskinning Android it’s going to end up the same way as the browser market, where webkit only survives because apple pushes safari down iOS users throats, gecko from firefox is dying and every other browser is chrome with some patches on top.

I hope this makes sense.