Comment by microtonal

Even when used against a government, there are a lot of different gradations. E.g., my government is not very hostile, but people who get arrested at a demonstration might still want to erase their phone. There are some countries where someone is not required to give their PIN, but the police is allowed to investigate a phone if they can unlock it by other means (Cellebrite, face unlock, etc.).

By the way, another way GrapheneOS protects against this is by allowing automatic reboot after a period without unlocking, which can be set to a very short period. This puts the phone in BFU (before first unlock), where fingerprint and face unlock do not work, and the phone is much harder to hack with tools like Cellebrite.