Do have any idea about the engineering required to remove all of the bloat?!

/s

Well yes and no. The point is to stop using Google. And that entails quite a few things you might expect a phone to do

I’m not sure if that’s how posting things to the public works. Optics will always be a part of that.

I’m curious, doesn’t WhatsApp require a phone number to be attached to an account? As in, I thought activating it doesn’t work on devices without a SIM card?