Honestly, its not perfect, but at least I'm not having ai prompts and constant adverts shoved in my face.
The stock Graphine apps and home launcher are very basic, they didn't focus on them because there are a prethora of better options already out there. For the basics, I recommend lawnchair, fossify gallary, fossify file manager, fossify phone, and open camera. For messages, I've got nothing. Only thing I've found that works right with group chats and sending pictures is google messages...