EU is hell bent on locking "your" devices down as much as possible so they can shove their big brother spyware down your throat under the guise of "protecting the kids" [1]. They are building tons of EU and national level apps where strong Play Integrity is required [2] and will pair these up with the need to prove your identity to "make sure you are an adult" everywhere on the internet [3]. At least one EU country, Spain, has already begun to profile people based on whether they may be running phone OSes other than Google blessed ones [4]

[1] https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview

[2] https://waag.org/en/article/european-digital-id-wallets-are-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Kids_Act

[4] https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pix...

with how EC has been behaving recently that might make things worse..

They probably know already, it's not the first time it happens. See the illegal pressure Google has made against OEM after CyanogenMod wanted to go commercial.

Google was found guilty by the EU antitrust investigation and payed a 4 billions euros fine (and Google has changed nothing since then, they only increased the pressure).

GrapheneOS is especially annoying for them as it destroys their blanket excuse that it's ""for security""