It's rather good and at some point they managed to have release for my previous phone model when the lineageos stopped!
I used it without their cloud services. Some of the pre-installed apps cannot be removed (like email, pdf readers) which is slightly annoying. They have their own launcher/desktop but it's not that good, it even crashes time to time.
Last time I checked, it was not super transparent which non-FOSS store they used.
Overall I think the experience with LineageOS is better but /e/ comes with MicroG so it's practical if you need a few proprietary apps.
> Last time I checked, it was not super transparent which non-FOSS store they used
I'm pretty sure that's deliberately opaque because mirroring APKs from Play store breaks some ToS somewhere and they don't want everyone getting their Google accounts banned.
I used it without their cloud services. Some of the pre-installed apps cannot be removed (like email, pdf readers) which is slightly annoying. They have their own launcher/desktop but it's not that good, it even crashes time to time.
Last time I checked, it was not super transparent which non-FOSS store they used.
Overall I think the experience with LineageOS is better but /e/ comes with MicroG so it's practical if you need a few proprietary apps.