Even Graphine is limited in what apps work properly compared to a normal google phone. You have to give up a lot in order to have privacy these days.

A pure linux non-android phone would be great however you wouldn't have access to properly working apps and would not be able to participate in modern society.

Not true, if you install play services you can run 99.9% of apps, i can even run all the italian apps from yhe goverment. You are still using google but its running as user service and you can even revoke most of the permissions including location.

Running their sandboxed Play, I can run everything. The only thing I notice in the US is some banking apps (stupidly, idiotically, moronically) force 2FA on every login instead of trusting biometric entirely like they do on stock OS.