Lol I've been modding Android phones since around the time they were released. I was finding goofy exploits for service providers. It was the wild west. GrapheneOS has made it about as convenient as possible. A child can install it these days. They even allow you GPS and Store if you really want them.
Maybe I'm biased from experience, the any inconvenience in GOS is so minimal I can't even think of an example for devil's advocate.
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Here's one, I accidentally nuked my phone back to factory once because of a bug in one of the security features. Or it was just poorly explained. That was a fucking headache. But things have improved since then.
I think GrapheneOS is still quite far from a convenient experience. Mostly because it confuses permission requests with privacy concerns. Permissions on Android don't necessarily affect the user's privacy. Focusing too much on Android Permissions takes time away from true privacy issues, like always-on tracking.
And I'm pretty demanding from a UI/UX perspective. The worst parts are some of the stock apps that haven't been updated much in years, but those can be replaced.
I use graphene, android auto was aids, banking apps don't work despite giving them all the special permissions possible.
Besides that it's smooth af
