Comment by ocdtrekkie

On the contrary, AOSP is a largely nonexistent OS thrown over the wall by an evil adtech company so they can claim the proprietary malware-laden version they ship to 99.9% of consumers is open source.

You cannot remove the stench of Google from Android and we should stop trying. We should use a scorched earth policy of avoiding any code that Google has written and assume it is harmful by default.