my plan to tackle this is to have two phones:
1) regular android phone only with the apps that require Google Play Store (banking apps, Gmaps etc.)
2) degoogled phone (either graphene or LineageOS without Play Store), with zap store and other APKs that are not currently on Play Store
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Most people will feel that it's too hard / expensive.
Privacy awareness is not binary. It's a spectrum. Some people see privacy as super important and will go to great lengths to keep it. Some don't care about it at all and will not suffer any inconvenience for the sake of privacy.
Most people are somewhere in the middle. Which means the easier it is to gain privacy, the more people will have it.
A better solution will be a VM inside graphenos tor android apps. If it's easy to set up, people will go for it.
Why two phones? You can do all that with Graphene (minus apps that specifically use the Play Integrity API) in separate/private profiles
I agree about the 2 phones; a "normie" phone that's already working with known data, and another that isn't.
You can totally use Google Play Services on a different profile on the same GrapheneOS device.
Banking apps no idea, people still use banks? 😉 why not use a computer or web version for that?
My bank (and presumably others) requires their app with location services enabled in order to use Zelle, which is the least shitty way I've found to send fiat to people. 😮💨
