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Google outright lets you unlock your bootloader on Pixels, and relock it with your custom keys, and even tells you how to do all that in the docs. You lose Play Integrity certification which is where things are getting a bit messy.
But for that you have to blame Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Disney, a lot of banks, a lot of games for using what is basically DRM for apps. It's the developers that want those features, so you can't mod their APKs and take the ads out, make sure you download the official version from Google Play because dumb users getting scammed and all that stuff.
I run LineageOS on my phone, I'm not doing anything whatsoever to hide it, and pretty much everything works perfectly except Google Pay. Which I guess is fair game, I hate it but there's a reasonable argument to be made there.
The rest is the same DRM woes I deal with on Linux, I value my rights and freedoms more than running an app.
Why did you choose Lineage over Graphene?
Because I have a OnePlus.
Which model - if you don't mind my asking? I managed to get my old Samsung A21s working *almost" perfectly with LineageOS.
It's a OnePlus 8T, but I think any OnePlus before I think the OnePlus 11 have excellent custom ROM support.
AFAIK I got lucky and the 8T is the last model from their "being nice to developers" era. OnePlus was born originally to be developer friendly, it was based on CyanogenMod out of the box, they even sent phones to developers.
Mine launched with OxygenOS 11, and then OOS12 was completely rebuilt on Oppo's ColorOS and they threw everything out the window. Took them forever to drop sources, and it just went downhill from there.