@edshot99 @digdeeper The big irony in the Android space is that Goolag phones are always the easiest to root and degoolag.

FairPhone is probably easier, but hard to find, but has the added benefit of being easily repairable.
But perhaps it's easier to get one in Europe, considering it's made by a Dutch company?

And then there's OnePlus, but it's made by a Chinese company (and therefore the CCP, because in CHAINA!! every company is a CCP memeber), so.........
Not saying CHAINA!! bad or anything, I just don't feel like enriching a tyrannical DICKtator with a zero covAIDS policy even further.
I made an exception with the PinePhone, but that's just a fraction of what you'll be paying for any other phone these days anyway.

As for PinePhone, there's SXMO too that works great, until you use the screen rotate gesture which immediately renders the entire OS broken with the only way to "fix it" being to completely wipe and reflash the OS.