First, Google has not scared me of anything as I don't use any of its services, except for Youtube and LineageOS, which is based on AOSP.
Second, I am a programmer, pretty tech-savvy and I'm a Debian and F-droid user, which means privacy and security is very important to me and I know that those could only be guaranteed by transparency, which means open source software.
There is though a weakness in that, which reproducible builds solves, that Debian and F-droid have and use to build their packages and apps.
But I will stop here, as here clearly any kind of security level is not acceptable and the moment someone reports something security related, somebody jumps on him / her with the "ad hominem" attack (paranoid) or with the "ad populum" attack (others would've complained about it too, if that were true).
I know that here is a "Take it or leave it", but I didn't know that free speech, information, observations are not accepted.
I cannot have any respect for people who are against free speech, which is actually the only right that protects the other rights and makes society advance and helps people avoid some bad things for them, if they are true.
I prefer to let people speak about what they think, why they choose or not choose a product, even if they are wrong, as there are cases when they might be right.