Except that many Android phones come with a bunch of apps you can't remove, including things like Facebook and whatnot. Probably differs per brand, but when I test-drove a Motorola last month there were a whole bunch of apps like that.

I guess you could just ignore it, but these kind of unremovable apps just makes me unreasonably angry: it's my goddamn fucking phone and I – and only I – gets to decide which fucking apps are on it!

I would add, a stock smartphone with LineageOS or some other de-Googled ROM. A stock smartphone is still going to have Google Play Services, Firebase, and a bunch of other things that could phone home.