Lawnchair seems to be a better experience over stock, as it has a lot more customisation options. Though my experience with it is that it has rather slow updates and icon packs don’t work saperate from the app drawer and home screen. It should, but it didn’t work for me

I use Kagi translate, I don’t use translators often so I cannot really share my experience. In times I did use it it had helped me perfectly fine

Probably the crDroid settings that lets you customize Android the way you want it

Good shout! I hadn’t been keeping up with that. Not sure whether they need the loads of security update it comes if it’s just a burner phone. I was aiming towards the degoogling process which is rather easy

I had a great experience with crDroid on the 1+ 7 Pro. Had Lineage too, it’s just more bareboned

In quickest phones to degoogle is probably one of Google’s Pixel a series using GrapheneOS. 6a is pretty affordable or just a normal 6 since they’re pretty old by now. OnePlus 6 or 7 is also really easy to degoogle using custom ROMs like crDroid and LineageOS.

I’ve had the OnePlus 7 Pro for years and really enjoyed it. A lot of screen, decent cameras and no camera punch hole! They go for about €75 to €100 around here. The Pixel 6 series seem to be going for the same prices for the Pro, which has very good cameras.

Waterfox is pretty much what you’re looking for. If you want a hardened browser, Librewolf is a very nice option. Though it does not have Widevine licenses so it might not play all DRM content.

Zen browser is what I personally use, but has a different workflow which was refreshing for once! If you want to try something new, I’d definitely recommend it! It also does not have Widevine licenses yet, but it did sign up for one.