If it doesn't suck now, then valve doesn't have anything to explain, no?
Raptorox
If yours is terrible then that's a skill issue tbh
Nintendon't
I also don't know them in depth, but from what I do know:
Lineage is a tweaked AOSP, it doesn't have google apps by default but can use MindTheGapps or microG
/e/OS is either their own system or heavily modded android, iirc it uses microG by default (mG is by /e/ i think)
Graphene is a privacy-focused android mod that can use googl.e apps, but in a sandbox. Basically a separate space, where they don't have any access to outside data
So basically they all lack google by default, but with different ways to use apps that use google
Yeah it is. Just "deGoogled unGoogled" as they say
Degoogled android
There's already a project like the first thing you wrote, SPIRIT, built on top of a rpi cm5, currently in ideas and mb design stage
KZ reminds me od Kaizen from Event[0]
It's not an executable, it's a script. You can read what it does
I'm not trying to gatekeep, I just feel like having a "terrible" experience is quite hard to achieve