giving google hundreds of dollars to then degoogle it and deduct a few dollars of potential earnings, in total making google a net positive. getting ahead in the game, I see.
Yes I'm happy to pay money to Google when they make a reasonably priced phone with decent hardware and don't restrict the ability to install a custom OS.
I don't care what one of the biggest privacy offenders does with my money, totally not going to use it to invade privacy. I'll give them some more just to be sure.