Every company doesn't do well with privacy. So the next step matters -- security.

Out of all the companies, Google and Samsung are by far the most secure companies in terms of breaches and the magnitude of those breaches.

Of course, not going to that next step would be ideal, but at least you have some control over your choice on security.

Except not now with Google's changes to Android security patches moving to quarterly instead of monthly so they can cover for shitty OEMs that don't push updates.

You don't think those vulnerabilities are going to leak out during the 4 months that OEMs have them before patches are pushed out?

Google has chosen to sacrifice security for marketing.