It's not for me, but:

- Google is an American company

- GrapheneOS Pixel support depends on Google's Pixel support (and has been affected by Google's decision to open-source less of their Pixel trees)

- This OS promises to maintain the usable app store + cloud experience

- OS maintenance isn't dependent on a bunch of volunteers/donations

- You can just buy this from an official reseller rather than making your own or having a sketchy website pre-install a custom ROM for you.

I think GrapheneOS has the better developers when it comes to privacy and security, but there are reasons to go for the reliability of a corporate entity you pay for support over hacking together an alternative.

I think these points kind of understate the size, funding and determination of the GrapheneOS project.

Pixel 8 or 9, from 10 it's getting iffy due to Google restrictions. 11 probably won't even be supported

>10 it's getting iffy due to Google restrictions

???

If you're talking about google delaying the release of android causing pixel 10 builds to get delayed, that's mostly fixed and there are experimental builds now. Moreover pixel 10 was released a few months ago and is already available on the latest android. Meanwhile this phone hasn't even been released and is supposedly (based on other comments) on Android 15, released a year ago.

As I understand the news from Grapheneos, there's also bootloader issues and Google stopped publishing the device tree of pixel devices.

They're not even sure if they'll support the 10a when it comes out.