@alicela1n @littlemisssynth I see my phone looking as normal as possible as a good thing, I see quality of life things like apple pay as incredibly useful for my day to day usage, up until recently iOS had better cutting edge/accessibility features and the system was a lot more polished than graphene ever could. all of this ofc came with the trade off of depending on some testflight apps, some annoying side loading with renewals, features being walled to specific regions and some dependency on icloud. at this stage both systems have plenty of irritating UI/UX (and related logic) bugs that are absolutely unacceptable, and the advantages of both systems are fading away. at this stage I feel like the only reason I own a phone is because I have to survive and the caveats that come with phone ownership outweigh the few good quality of life I actually get by owning a phone.
edit: I really don’t understand why apple doesn’t introduce some of the neat graphene features like the distress pin, the 10 failed attempts thing is similar but it’s not as aggressive and things like auto shutting off bluetooth and wifi would also be neat on the iOS side…