It can be two things

Ask and you shall receive fellow lover of lock on technology ™️

Unfortunately I don’t have a genesis Game Genie or Action Replay to really spice it up

This is why I have tried to drill into junior devs that it is important to take a step back for several minutes before responding to criticism. It’s just too easy to fall into the trap of interpreting comments and suggestions on improvement as a personal attack.

I’m not sure about over in Europe but around here the trick to an affordable Pixel is to just buy last years model since you can usually find them lightly used or even new in the $300 - $400 range and updates are only incremental anyway and since they get 7 years of updates now it should be good for quite a while.

For google play protect yeah thats a bummer, I just use my banks website but I don’t know if European banks allow that.

Personally though I love Graphene OS it turned my phone from a device I hated due to anxitey I feel around corporate surveillance into a device I genuinely like again.