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GrapheneOS user here, compared to my stock android pixel it's night and day, no sense of my phone spying on me.
I use almost entirely FOSS on the graphene one, I now do most of my daily phone activities on the graphene, and use the stock primarily for work (I refuse to taint the graphene phone just so I can do my job).
The installation was extremely simplistic compared to other custom android versions I've run. It was literally: plug in phone, click button, phone restarted itself, clicked another button, done.
Hey I am also using GrapheneOS. And what you could do for work is setup a second profile that is not allowed to run when not active. That way it is fully isolated environment for work. Add to that that GrapheneOS lets you install Google related things inside a user profile without needing them to have root access. as some work related things might require google services.
I have a second profile set up already, exclusively for Google play services and anything else I don't want on the main profile.
I might make a third exclusively for work, but as it stands the second phone actually makes more sense in that regard in terms of taxation, simplicity of use etc. no faffing about with profile switching, just check which colour phone and then slam that fingerprint down on the sensor.
I do however welcome suggestions, perhaps I should make a post rather than just lurking in the comments for once...
The one issue I have with graphene is the incredibly broken backup, but they know that and are working on replacing it.
Other than that, rock solid.
I've not yet messed with backup, there's nothing on this phone I would miss if it were lost, stolen or broken.
I do however have it's entire contents backed up manually to multiple locations, so even if the worst should happen, it would simply be a matter of transferring to a new device.