No. You’re wrong! 
You’re not a thorn in my side.
The main difference is I will never intentionally put another Euro in Google’s pocket, so buying a Pixel is out of the question, and no one has yet offered me a free one with a dead battery. This eliminates CalyxOS and GrapheneOS, for me.
Here is a current statement by thestinger, a little more vague, but reading between the lines… And another by mar-v-in that convince me to stay with the GrapheneOS, LineageOS or DivestOS approach of avoiding spoofing and microG. As you say, YMMV.
thestinger:
“GrapheneOS is also hard at work on filling in gaps from not bundling Google apps and services into the OS. We aren’t against users using Google services but it doesn’t belong integrated into the OS in an invasive way. GrapheneOS won’t take the shortcut of simply bundling a very incomplete and poorly secured third party reimplementation of Google services into the OS. That wouldn’t ever be something users could rely upon. It will also always be chasing a moving target while offering poorer security than the real thing if the focus is on simply getting things working without great care for doing it robustly and securely.” Features overview | GrapheneOS
mar-v-in:
“Nothing is without costs. Using microG breaks many apps or makes them behave incorrectly. And I hope it’s clear to users that microG may have security issues that are not present in original Play services (and vice-versa). However I believe (and I guess the same is true for most microG users), that using an open-source and intentionally privacy-preserving implementation of the features provided by Play services is worth these costs. Your opinion may vary.” [Feature discussion] Alternative signature spoofing · Issue #1467 · microg/GmsCore · GitHub
CalyxOS ships with a very strict version of signature spoofing that grants only the microG components the permission and only lets them spoof the Google signature.
I appreciate in the above (somewhat embarassing) discussion at github, archived, what was said about sudo and apps. The less the better, on phones, IMHO.
