@solene Also, learning that there is no FDE makes me really paranoid about losing my phone.
All of this has culminated in me getting ready for switching back to CalyxOS, and I will probably do so in the coming days. I do feel that I have gotten some perspective, though. I think that the current state of Android phones makes it really hard to get a good experience on a traditional distro, and one would probably have to use a phone built with those in mind for the experience to be truly good. I find that there are a lot of compromises that have to be made when using a device with Halium, sadly; one of which seems to be that kernel updates seem to be really hard.