Comment by palata

I think it would just be a lot of work. And if you went down that road, you would be against other teams with bigger marketing and a bigger community.

As in: people who do care enough to understand the technical arguments tend to go for GrapheneOS when they can. But if you build a "degraded GrapheneOS", you are not targetting those. For someone who doesn't care about what GrapheneOS brings, why would they use your system versus /e/OS?

DivestOS was a thing at some point, which was technically very interesting. But there wasn't much of a differentiator since the people who already cared about what DivestOS was doing were probably already looking at getting GrapheneOS.