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Originally Posted by Quoth

I struggled to see the point of CyanogenMod and there seems little value to LineageOS, especially given the difficulty of installing it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LineageOS

Mostly it was to get updates for devices that Google and other hardware vendors chose not to continue supporting. Insert rant about Google killing their "flagship" reference Nexus One in six months (launch: 5 Jan, 2010; discontinued: 18 July, 2010). And then doing it again with the Nexus S, and again, and again....

Installing so-called custom firmware was a lot easier in 2012-2015 than it is now.