Yeah I think GOS is making the right calls right now and do the best thing they can do. But it’s still a “trust me bro”. Doesn’t really matter if it is a valid reason or not. You’re still adding a new layer of trust.
I’m also skeptical of the of GOS+OEM phone because if GrapheneOS becoming a OEM/Getting a small time OEM because you’re making it alot easier for governments and 3 letters to make a focus attack on GOS. Unless the OEM make fully open-source phone I wouldn’t trust it and I will still use pixels as long as I can. There are to many new layer of trust with a GOS+OEM phone to my liking.
A hidden perk of pixels phones, it is a lot harder to do a supply-chain attacks or a focus attack on GOS because you need to attack millions of phones just to hit the 1% of GOS users. We can say alot of bad things about Google but attacking one of the most secure company’s with a supply-chain attack is more unlikely then other OEM’s. And Google is probably one of the few company’s that are powerful enough to fight governments if they wanted to.