I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but I did notice it on my Pixel 8 Pro! The interesting thing is that I’m running Graphene OS, not stock

Have you checked out the FuriPhone FLX1? I think people don’t talk about it much, and I don’t know why. To me it seems the best option

Since you’ve talked about OpenMW + mods, do you have any recommendations for someone who played Morrowind on Windows years ago and would like to play it again on Linux via OpenMW? What works, what requires tinkering? Any mods that you recommend?

That’s another issue. AOSP is effectively being developed in a closed environment, with only the final code being published on github after release. So AOSP if effectively not being developed in the open any more