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Graphene literally ships with the play store and services. That's worse
It does not.
You can install a Sandboxed Version of it, but not more
It being sandboxed doesn't prevent it from doing whatever the fuck it wants within the confines of the sandbox, and that sandbox has to be pretty wide to be functional.
Like, which is worse:
An os that ships with an opt-in kinda privacy unfriendly locked behind a paywall.
An os that ships google play services, which you need to give all sorts of permissions for apps to function, and requires a google account.
To quote you:
See how that applies to graphene shipping google play services instead of microG?