> It is a dodgy Android distro for several reasons.

What are these reasons?

> LineageOS has no such shenanigans nor has a pattern of suspicious funding.

What pattern of suspicious funding?

There are threads on YC almost every week/month promoting that dodgy distro. Inside them are the comments with proper details from plenty of other YC users.

For the sake of avoiding repetition or bias, just do your own research. There is a search box at the end of the page.