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Android is a Google project, you'll always keep fighting your upstream.
It would be a hard fork which Google is forcing anyway. That's the path Graphene is taking.
It's start with a basic working phone gui and apps and improve it (Graphene's path) or start with absolutely nothing and build everything again (Pine OS etc's path).
I prefer just reusing the same software I use on my desktop, which is what I'm doing on my phone. I've ported Mobian to the Pixel 3a for precisely that reason.
I want the same software on the go.