I didn’t have strong feelings about it, and had extensive experience with LineageOS. I just stuck with what I knew.

It’d probably work faster and more reliably if the worker must answered the question directly.

I bought the 4 from Mureno with e/os/ on it.

This is true. Hopefully they will soon sell the 5! I tossed lineageOS on mine, and have felt pleased with it.

They sell an official version with US antennas through Murena!

More than one ear? :D

Also consider looking into Gadgetbridge and the list of devices it supports!

Can you give more detail on this?

Unfortunately he isn’t sharing his historical datasets sets with the wider community. :(