Some aggressive and/or anti user changes in Chromium for Chrome are very difficult to change back and maintain, just look at Brave differences.

And Android isn’t publishing the source code publicly, only as a dump from time to time, so open source projects do not get access to security updates & new features…

I’m sorry to tell you this but open source is NOT in a good place right now. Companies dominate and destroy, with fancy ribbons on top. What we need is a model outside of capitalism, where projects made for humanity can be created without needing to make investors richer.

As another data point, I’m writing this from my fold 6 which is about one year old, with no scratches nor marks of any kind.