You only responded to two of my points.

Orion allows Firefox extensions and I’m sure others do as well

I honestly didn't know about Orion. The lack of alternate browser engines on iOS is still problematic though.

DNS ad blocking works too through VPN ad blockers

Cool, you refuted one more point. How about the rest? You still need an Apple account to use iOS properly - to install apps, to have automatic cloud backup (only iCloud is allowed to run in the background - and I know because I used to use Google photos, you had to have the app open to backup photos). You can't edit the status bar to show a network speed indicator or anything else. You can't install third party SMS, phone, or launcher apps and the FOSS environment is quite small anyway due to Apple's walled garden with the app store and hostility to developers - It costs $99 p/a + the cost of an Apple computer to release an app to the Apple app store.

You just didn’t do any research or are not really at the nerdom level to be so appreciative of an Android.

Lol, gatekeeping, much? I would argue even for noobs android is better just for the FOSS suite available and ease of switching if they do become more tech literate and start caring more about customisablity.

Android is the obvious choice, but only specific ones of course cuz there’s hate there too towards specific brands if you’re super nerd.

Any Android device is miles above an Apple device, but eg Pixels with GrapheneOS are obviously going to be superior to Samsung or Huawei phones too. On that I agree with you.