I’ve been elated a few times in life but never felt the need to grab a man or woman and kiss on the lips.

Such a weak excuse.

I used Arch for a longggg time too. It rarely broke, but when it did break oh boy it completely shit the bed :D

Used Arch for over 5 years. I don’t know if having a child changed me but I realised I’d lost a lot of time I had that I spent just fiddling with configs to get stufftpo my liking so went from Arch xmonad to PopOs and Gnome.

It has been stable and doesn’t have the snap bullshit that comes with Ubuntu.

I agree, I do not care about drama at all. People aren’t perfect and that’s fine with me.

GrapheneOS is the best option for me and my device.

People have a complete right to complain about privacy and make their own choices with what they find acceptable. All of those examples you listed are where people are making a concious choice. Apps sneaking in data collection is not acceptable, people are most likely to already trust the app when the rug is pulled from under them.