With google following apple’s walled garden, and limiting third party app installations, can someone else big (nonprofit like GNU or Linux foundation) fork and maintain android? Reason for choosing someone big is for mass adoption and that google is slowly boiling the pot to see what enshittification it could get away with
there is postmarketOS, lineage OS, and graphene that creates a privacy layer of it. Lineage OS has a bunch of phones it works on, while graphene is exclusive to pixels, sideload lineage OS onto your phone system (DON’T FORGET TO BACKUP!) and install it. It’s as good as it gets.
Postmarketos works in a similar fashion you sideload the bootloader but you can install Linux distros exclusively for phones.