Does this pass as discourse for you? Does not deserve a response at all. Hopefully those beginners you keep white knighting for do not receive the same behaviour from you, which might be the core reason why they are turned off by the topic.
Just as a helpful tip, beginners do not come in with any delusion that they are correct or have rigid opinions in mind. Here is a post by an actual beginner who comes in with an open mind, asks questions, and then lands on what is the best available option: Hardening Pixel without installing GrapheneOS
I agree, it seems like astroturfing. The entry of various snake oil salesmen with huge marketing but apparently small privsec budgets in the private phone business has muddied the water with constant demands for evaluating punkt, unplugged, and the like, when they have been evaluated already and found to be severely lacking.
Hope the forum clamps down a bit on these repetitive questions by closing them and pointing them to older questions or megathreads.