my daily driver might end up getting religated to my once in a while fiat bank checking phone and my Graphene phone might just become my go to

IT'S SOLID AND THE UX HAS BECOME EASY ENOUGH FOR NOOBS. SHOUT OUT TO THE GRAPHENE DEVS.

Your graphene should already be your daily anyway, but better late than never.

Pixel phones are certified Android devices that ship with the Play Store so based on this post #grapheneos users are affected. @Final what’s the good word?

GrapheneOS users are fine. Users who also use the Play Services apps on GrapheneOS run them as unprivileged applications, so there's room to circumvent it should those apps not want to behave.