> My point was more that unless someone credible wants to spend days investigating we will never know the truth here, except for the obvious truth staring us in the face: stay away from _all_ _these_ _people.
+1
It's difficult to even neutrally mention GrapheneOS / CalyxOS / DivestOS on reddit without getting an extremely angry response by one of the same 5-6 accounts who apparently spend all their time accusing each other of nebulous misdeeds. Ignoring them is by far the best response.
FWIW I was already a user of LineageOS and custom ROMs for years, and did move to GrapheneOS recently, but more for usability reasons than privacy/security ones. The WebUSB installer and OTA updates for Graphene are way more professional than downloading new releases off a guy on xda-developers and having to do a clean install (= wipe the phone) after major upgrades.
With that said, and with my tongue firmly in cheek, someone who thinks (rightly or wrongly) that the world is full of malicious people eager to mess with them might be exactly the psychological profile you want in the developer of a privacy-focused OS :)