I mean its kinda true. The biggest draw to custom roms back in the day was adding features that either weren’t available at all or only on limited devices.

Even before google started locking shit down tight custom roms were dying because they had less and less to differentiate themselves from both each other and official android.

Now of course we’ve basically come full circle. We are losing wanted/needed features for “security” but shits so locked down custom roms can’t provide us with those features. :(