Yes, this seems like a good option for OP to try first considering they don’t need torrenting.

The only slim hope was that anti-trust case, but it was ruled that Google is allowed to keep Android so it’s probably just going to deteriorate further.

I use Grayay. I’ve found it more consistent/reliable than NewPipe and, like you, I don’t want the YouTube app on my phone (even if it has been modded). Also, I just don’t believe using cracked/modded versions of official applications is a good long-term solution to problems. ReVanced works really well but it is basically the last choice I would make, for that reason.

Isn’t it a dead project?

I believe Jerboa has support for multiple accounts.

I assume any that don’t have Google Play Services, which would be those you have mentioned already plus any forks (iodéOS, for example). They would all die if they were made subject to these changes, so the fact that they aren’t panicking about it suggests they are safe for now.

Yes, but it is locked down since HarmonyOS NEXT and requires workarounds to install apps outside of their app store.

(probably also Huawei, but I am not shure)

Huawei’s HarmonyOS NEXT is no longer based on Android code and requires some workarounds to install applications outside of AppGallery (Huawei’s app store).

All that stuff was being sent around in the .ml Privacy community again recently, including their favourite conspiracy theory involving Techlore, Louis Rossmann and Nicholas Merrill (founder of Calyx Institute and CalyxOS). According to the GrapheneOS cult, Techlore and Rossmann are paid employees of Merrill’s and have been attacking GrapheneOS on his behalf. Zero evidence, of course. Just the usual “source: trust me bro” you expect from GrapheneOS.

And as usual, a lot of it was orchestrated in the comments by a moderator of the GrapheneOS community here. Guess what the thread was about? Yes, another attack on the security and privacy of /e/OS. It’s all so predictable.

I think it’s more likely that people involved with GrapheneOS are just very passionate/obsessed with security, and take an almost evangelist approach to discourse in this space that is completely devoid of any kind of nuance. Anything that is not as secure as GrapheneOS is extremely bad and a danger to the movement, from their perspective. They’re not even necessarily wrong on the individual facts a lot of the time, but their approach is always hyper-aggressive with very high modality language that makes things seem worse than they are. For whatever reason, many of the people associated with the project seem to be completely lacking in social skills and are incapable of having a two-way conversation. They also have a massive victim complex and are constantly accusing anyone who is even remotely critical of them of being part of some big corporate conspiracy, so even an one-off exchange between someone associated with another project and a GrapheneOS team member can quickly spiral into a gigantic fake drama (as happened with CalyxOS several years ago).

GrapheneOS astroturfing has been happening on Lemmy too, recently. It all feels very similar to their unprovoked war against CalyxOS a few years ago.

The way that was going, I thought they were going to announce the end of the project. Glad to see it’s just a temporary pause on updates!

The best Android alternative from a privacy standpoint forr the Fairphone 4 is iodéOS, which is a privacy-focused fork of LineageOS that fully supports the device (including re-locking of the bootloader). LineageOS isn’t really a privacy-focused project, but it would also come with some improvements over stock. You can also get a version of LineageOS with microG here.