If your threat model is that you cannot trust the Pixel hardware, then you cannot trust any smartphone or computer at all, period.
This doesn't mean the cheap device arrives without spyware, likely the difference is the spyware being monitored by chinese rather than US agencies so pick your poison. I'll pick mine.
This is just a strawman: Nobody claimed they were open hardware.
> Open schematics for a PCB don't make it any harder to hide a backdoor.
This is like saying that FLOSS doesn't make it harder to hide a backdoor. Of course it does.
So you are just attacking another FLOSS community with false [0] claims. This is suspicious.
[0] You can't say "extraordinary insecure" without specifying a threat model. For some threat models, GrapheneOS is less secure, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45556788
Also, if I explicitly don't trust Google with anything, GOS is extraordinarily insecure for me until a new vendor appears.
