Nice write up.
I feel like everyone under-sells the speed difference, though. I haven’t seen performance differences this impressive from an OS switch in many years.
For those that know the feeling of switching a tired old x86 to Linux and getting a peppy performant device - this is better.
Maybe it just feels better from being a pocket device, or maybe my last phone was more deeply bogged down with vendor crap than I can fathom.
Either way, my affordable older Pixel is running GrapheneOS substantially more responsive for daily tasks than the most expensive phones I have ever bought before.
On the stable channel, it seems like (from comparing notes with friends) a recent update introduced crashes into older games that did not crash previously. In my case, Proton is always involved.