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Pixels have the best support for community ROMs.
And seven years of guaranteed Android updates.
Not really relevant for a person who wants to use community ROMs because of "anti-Google sentiments".
Actually, it still is relevant because custom ROMs often incorporate driver and security updates to the base ROM.
I know Graphene recommends against the out-of-support Pixels for this reason.
If your stock OS doesnt ship updates it is very likely the custom OS will also not be able to ship them
After Samsung and Google announced lengthy support cycles for their phones, at least about the Snapdragon based ones observers made comment about Qualcomm not releasing driver updates for that long. I don't know how it's for Tensor but those are partially based on tech from 3rd parties. Technically drivers aren't part of Android anyway, so when vendors guarantee 7 years of Android updates, they could just not update the drivers at some point and hardly anyone would notice.
I'm not sure that's a fair comment - I'm on lineage and I'm still getting rom and android security updates, but not vendor ones. On an OP9 for context.
I get LineageOS updates for my ancient Nexus 4.
This is really nice, but the updates do not include everything. Phones are SOCs and Android uses a custom Kernel made for that device, and Firmware needs to be signed by manifacturers. If the manifacturers dont care, you will be open to many vulnerabilities.
When OEMs commit to 7 years of updates but the SoC provider doesn't support their chips for that long, later updates don't contain everything anyway.
ROM is read only memory :D thats a tiny part of the firmware that loads the rest of the firmware. GrapheneOS and everything else is an OS, not a ROM.
No idea where that name comes from