I use GrapheneOS on my Pixel 8 right now but it's been obvious for a while that this is the way Android is moving. Eventually all proprietary Android apps will require both attestation and play store installation, making something like Graphene far less useful than it otherwise could be.

There's still a decent amount of good open source software on F-Droid of course, but so much of the Android ecosystem is proprietary software that being unable to run any of it really hamstrings you.

I was considering buying a Jelly Star as a second device to run the garbage proprietary apps I will still need.

It's a shame we've ended up here.