Depends. When it comes to privacy they’re a step up from virtually all vanilla Android distributions. And if you care about things like NFC payments and banking apps working reliably (= not potentially breaking with an update to the app or OS) in general that’s your only option with Android. I’m not switching to a Pixel with Graphene, it just doesn’t do what I need my phone to do. I might switch to an iPhone if the EU actually manages to force them to cut the walled garden crap.