I’ve been using a Shiftphone 8 (after upgrading from a Shiftmq 6) with the degoogled ShiftOS-L. It does the job. The removable battery is really nice since I can carry around a spare battery and quickly swap if needed. However, it is made by a small company, so updates are quite sparse. I’d like to switch to iodéOS once it gets out of beta.

It’s also pretty bad when you’re not using QWERTY layouts.

There were some controversies due to the toxicity of Hpyrland’s community (namely its discord server). See this post for example

Edit: I should have read OP’s linked post first, which actually also refers to Drew’s post.