Blech. Phones should be cattle not pets. Wake me when GOS partners with an OEM that isn't pricing for celebreties.
Motorola has a lot of budget devices and wants more affordable devices to support GrapheneOS too. Qualcomm hasn't yet made MTE available for anything below a flagship SoC likely priced at a couple hundred dollars per phone. We chose not to remove MTE as a requirement in order to support more devices and that's entirely our decision.