Most defining characteristic of race is different skin tones. Literally what racism is about. You don't see people referring to races as their historical decent.
I plugged in my S21+ to my Google Pixel 7 and went to the browser installer on the S21+, took maybe 5 minutes to install. Graphene OS is dead simple unlike other roms. That's why so many people use and recommend it.
Why not have more storage on your phone for photos or music and then have that backup to a server? I encourage you to try to recover data from your broken phone. Much easier to read data from a unencrypted HDD then take a phone apart and try to read the bytes off it. You just keep all sensitive data on your phone's internal storage.
With Pixels you can install different ROMs or root your device to remove anything you want. Samsung doesn't give you that choice. Also, Samsung software has gotten so buggy over the years to the point I don't even use my Samsung anymore. Graphene OS is so light weight and stable compared to my S21+ with disabled bloatware and heavy battery optimization. Not to mention how hot Samsung phones get when using the camera.
I think its fixed because I haven't encountered it in a long time. I recommend pulling Thunder right from GitHub using Obtainium instead of using fdroid. More frequent updates.
Don't go around calling long supported open source apps "dodgy". If you actually used the app you would know that its a completly different codebade. Feel free to audit the source code if its "dodgy".
Last I checked the Flatpak is an old version of Proton VPN. Look up how to get the beta release for your distro to get the latest features.