Buying an Android phone certainly allows you to run other browsers that use their own rendering engines, but Android is hardly open; you are still restricted in many ways from doing what you might want to do, with little recourse. Installing a third-party OS image is possible, but then removes your access from some things that you might still like (any app that requires SafetyNet to pass, for example).
The bottom line is that there is no open phone platform out there that even remotely provides feature parity with Android or iOS. Anything you do is going to be a trade off, and for some people, there is no way to satisfy 100% of their needs and wants. That doesn't mean we aren't allowed to complain about the bits that can't be satisfied.
The bottom line is that there is no open phone platform out there that even remotely provides feature parity with Android or iOS. Anything you do is going to be a trade off, and for some people, there is no way to satisfy 100% of their needs and wants. That doesn't mean we aren't allowed to complain about the bits that can't be satisfied.