I absolutely do not want to run Google binaries on the phone, graphene doesn't support microG and instead want you to run Google's binaries on your phone, just sandboxed.
If you tear out the parts that talk to Google, then the phone hardware isn't spying on you. It's just hardware.
The critical piece tying your phone to Google every 3 minutes is called "play services".
Calyxos was an OS for the pixel hardware that replaced play services with a FOSS library (called microG) which tricked regular apps into thinking they were talking to and getting responses from Google, when it was actually all happening on your phone.
I disagree. I think having everyone send their federal taxes to a state entity for leverage purposes would be an interesting development. The individual is protected, and the state holds the bag.
Got a pixel? Check out calyxos, it's a free system upgrade that rips out anything google but allows almost everything to work, even the play store and all your usual games and bank apps.
Preach 😑