You cannot beat the capitalist system via the capitalist system. It’s faux democracy. Just a bunch of right wingers. Know your enemy.

That’s definitely neat, but isn’t it sort of a moot point when a hardware switch is just controlling software? I haven’t read into it, so maybe I’m not understanding correctly.

I’m a pretty big fan of the Framework’s hardware switches for the mic and camera.

They didn’t specifically disregard budget phones. The budget phones just won’t have the hardware required to meet GrapheneOS requirements. They’ve states that as the next gen flagship hardware trickles down to the budget phones, there’ll be more options.