What you are tying to achieve is literally the goal of PostmarketOS. For supported devices, PMOS should continue working for a very ling time when compared to more hacky custom roms. I use a Oneplus 6 and have used both divestOS and PostmarketOS on it and it is well supported by both.

I totally agree with you. I’m simply astonished that we’re in this situation at all.

It still irks me how there is incentives for private companies to build dense, but they literally cannot since zoning laws make it illegal. Like, how often are the incentives of corps aligned with the public?

It might just be a good idea to reduce our land use so we could have more trees.