That would be nice but I do wonder how much the Graphene project is going to be involved in hardware decisions if it is a major OEM. Sounds like it’ll be more just a phone where the OEM provides support of bootloader unlocks and installation of graphene
Is the new official VPN project any different from Orbot? I don’t know much about it. I would assume not as anything more elaborate would require changes to the tor protocol. Either way you aren’t wrong. You can pretty much get by on the modern internet with TCP alone, it does mean no HTTP/3 but that’s not a big deal and outside of games very few other things in the wild use UDP. Never mind the other even less used L4 protos like SCTP.
Calling Tor a VPN is a bit scuffed. Yeah you can kinda use it as one but ultimately it’s really a TCP proxy and has a lot of limitations because of that which traditional VPNs don’t. There are some ways to make a VPN out of Tor but it doesn’t change the fact that it ultimately isn’t one.
Also I might add that in 2025 whether or not a VPN has IPv6 support should be relevant.
Adaway also has a no root mode that does this as well.
Too bad google stopped shipping pixel specific code in the AOSP tree. Maybe they wouldn’t be contemplating dropping the pixel 11 if that was still the case.