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Different uses for a phone then I guess. To me my phone is an appliance like my washing machine. I want it to work when I need it to and be reliable.

Depends entirely on your airline

Can be quite a bit buggier than stock, can be difficult or impossible to use some apps. You can lose some stock features sometimes. You can spend a lot of time debugging issues.

I don't want a different experience, I know you can install different Linux OSes on your phone but that's not what I use my phone for. Last I checked Ubuntu touch barely worked too.

Is that illegal? Aren't they offering it to you for free? It's definitely immoral but probably not illegal.

That's fair, but yeah I don't really care for that. I can understand why someone would though

What I do on my PC and what I do on my phone are different. Above all the most important feature of my phone is that it works reliably, not that I can tinker or install mods

I don't care to enhance it any further from the default experience, especially with the downsides

I guess that's a fair reason. I hadn't really considered that because I don't personally care too much

My usage of my phone is different from the usage of devices I specifically install Linux on.

Well Linux is an entire different OS which comes with its own benefits. Rooting makes it a lot more difficult to use apps that use safetynet so doing it because "why not" rather than for a specific benefit doesn't make sense to me

I had my note 8 for longer than security updates existed so I installed lineageOS on it, it got security updates but lost a ton of other features and became buggy and slow. Maybe with other phones the experience is better.