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Before I had my own car, I used car sharing. No provider worked with a rooted phone. "visa secure" for paying online, requires a banking app usually. And sadly I can't invest days per product researching feasible alternatives.
I'm on GrapheneOS now, and the stuff works. But google is actively fighting it, and it only works by finding loopholes and setting up sandboxes to pretend to be google... microg-services (did I get the name right?) might also solve those issues, but it's a constant fight and might stop working at any time. And this is horrible, and that's why I applaud the fact, that bigger players are directing their attention to this problem.
GrapheneOS is the best option that I know of for a phone ROM. LineageOS for MicroG is a decent alternative for de-googled ROMs, and it supports a wider range of devices. It's not the official LineageOS, but is maintained on a separate site that hosts builds that include MicroG. Official LineageOS does not support MicroG but can be installed without Google crap (and will not work with things that require google play services)