Comment by jeroenhd

> you cannot run netflix or most banking apps

This isn't entirely true. My phone runs a custom ROM, but has no root. Google Wallet works (to my surprise) as does my banking app.

Amazon Prime and Netflix will play video, but only in SD, so I torrent all of those shows for when I'm not watching them on Windows.

Once you root your phone, more features get disabled. You can still get everything to work again (as root detection APIs still cannot beat root access) but that's an ever lasting arms race of annoying workarounds and features that break randomly.

To be somewhat fair to Google, several custom ROMs, including LineageOS, do disable a LOT of security features that even outdated vendor ROMs will keep enabled, because they're a pain to implement properly. However, GrapheneOS is one of the few operating systems that would rather break app compatibility than risk exposing their users to software vulnerabilities. A Pixel with an official GrapheneOS ROM and a locked bootloader should receive the same security status, or perhaps an even better one, than many phones running stock firmware.