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’m talking about non-tech people who have no connection to privacy and are total beginners.
The post you linked is from someone who already knows a bit about privacy and isn’t a total beginner anymore.
He can talk about threat-modeling and he tried GOS.
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.
So you are basically saying that the OP is a bot that comes here any tries to market other phone without any evidence?
Come on ….