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I've heard of Sailfish but never really investigated.
Everything is trade offs, so what would say are the downsides of using something like Sailfish instead of Graphene?
You kind of have the same set of hurdles as early Linux Desktop, as in fewer programs have been ported.
Instead of using wine to run windows apps you have waydroid that spins an android userspace inside a linux container, which has better compatibility since it’s not translating stuff like wine.
Privacy hardening is similar to desktop Linux, as in multiple solutions, everyone disagrees with everyone.
While Graphene currently has some upper hand on the privacy side (among other things, by being plug n play), it’s still a sand castle built on Google’s beach, fact of the matter is they don’t control the platform, so they have to walk on eggs undoing every fuckery Google introduces with every Android version.
At some point you have to question whether the time and effort doing mental gymnastics, chasing a moving target, unfucking android and reverse engineering play services is still worth it. I would say it never was, it actually strengthened the enemy by making android look like an open platform when in reality it is “iOS, but worse”.
So yeah, there’s work to be done on mobile Linux, but there’s no future in Android (forks).
Being an Android fork, GrapheneOS has always depended on goodwill from Google. People used to call me names for pointing that out but now I think even the blind can see.
Give both Google and Apple the middle finger by not installing Graphene but an actual mobile Linux like Sailfish or postmarketOS and buy a second hand iPhone for the forced normie stuff (and keep it inside a faraday cage whenever not needed).