Alpha lowers the expected level of polish and stability - it doesn't make every regression equally acceptable. It is a reasonable criticism even when released to the alpha channel.

Further, I believe it's reasonable for users' expectations to be influenced by what the project itself communicates about the development process.

> People sometimes.

I have experienced many (relatively minor but some annoying) bugs in GrapheneOS the past few years, without complaint to the developers. And have submitted bug reports and logs. I'm "in the trenches", not just slinging mud from the outside. If I were in a better financial situation right now, I would be donating too.

This is somewhat true. I expect more regressions from released commercial software.

I suspect there are fewer regressions per release on graphenes alpha messenger than there are in googles message's app.