Being somewhat de-Googled might make it more private, but that isn’t the same thing as more secure.
I would say this depends on how you perceive threats. For me the one risk I am worried about is surveillance capitalism, and I want to be safe from that above all else. I don’t care about locking the bootloader because local threats is not a concern for me. I just don’t want any data on my phone usage to end up with capitalists. For me that is safety, as nobody else has any interest in or capacity to spy on me.
If I was a target of Russian or American intelligence officers I might see it differently of course, but in that case I would probably be reluctant to use a phone much at all.
I would say this depends on how you perceive threats. For me the one risk I am worried about is surveillance capitalism, and I want to be safe from that above all else. I don’t care about locking the bootloader because local threats is not a concern for me. I just don’t want any data on my phone usage to end up with capitalists. For me that is safety, as nobody else has any interest in or capacity to spy on me.
If I was a target of Russian or American intelligence officers I might see it differently of course, but in that case I would probably be reluctant to use a phone much at all.