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What makes you say Degoogled Android might go extinct? Projects like LineageOS and GrapheneOS are still going strong. /e/OS, murenaOS, VollaOS and other similar phones have been coming out of the woodwork recently. I think DeGoogled Android is just getting started.
That is, unless, you mean Google is working hard to close down AOSP so the downstream DeGoogled projects don't function anymore? Then yeah, I sadly have to agree.
Google seems to start cracking down on free android, I don't really believe they want to just stop the ability to install apps on your regular android and be done with it. Once they get the taste for blood, they can't stop