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And even that advantage can be minimized by getting any bundle of privacy products, like Proton which offer all of those (Mail, VPN, Drive, Calendar) or even with your self-hosted VPS (Some VPS seller even allow you to prepare it with Nextcloud and a VPN relay for near no extra paiement).
I see the "pay once to one company", but you also need to trust them entirely, for EVERYTHING.
Also, there's already plenty of companies doing such thing (regardless of how practical/private/secure they are)
/e/OS is extremely insecure.
Iodé is just LineageOS which is also not better
Purism (librem) is a scam company not delivering any phones to paying customers, while pretending to do well.
GrapheneOS is the only one that makes sense, and they use it as Base, so if you for some reason dont want GrapheneOS this may be the next best thing