With the recent changes to how Google is doing things with Android, is it even worth it anymore? Should I just accept whatever version of Android comes with whatever phone or are custom ROMs still worth it? Assuming they still exist after all of this, idk what’s going on.
I think AOSP will stay open source for quite a while, so the forks can continue. What Google removed was access to the drivers for Pixels, which makes development for new phones or driver updates much harder.
So I think the custom ROMs will take more time for updates or some might even ask for money to use their ROMs (which is fair in my opinion).
If the ROM ecosystem happen to die down, then my next step would be to get a open souce / hardware centered phone and install a mobile Linux distro.
I went the Pixel / GrapheneOS route earlier this year.
With google fuckibg around with drivers, I may go the open hardware route for my next phone.