[other8026]

> baking telemetry into the hardware (or at least the kind of telemetry that I assume Google is interested in) seems like skipping a few levels of abstraction, and thus more trouble than it's worth.

This isn't really a practical way of doing it. Google Play and Google Play Services having privileged access is more than sufficient.

[gf000]

Which they don't have under Graphene OS - they are the same as any other service you could write.

[other8026]

Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I meant they get all that on the stock OS, but didn't make that clear.