Install over browser is a really low entry bar. Commercial would see about zero users.
Pixels are okay hardware-wise. Lifecycle is not much of a limit, since you're relying on the upstream for patches anyway.
I block ads both on DNS blocklists and browser plugin level. Vanadium unfortunately doesn't have uBlock origin so I'll have to improvise something when I start using GrapheneOS on mobile -- I don't get out much.
With open source ROMs like LineageOS and GrapheneOS the admin is you.
This is why I run GrapheneOS and LineageOS.
Your phone is showing you ads?
Young people are always ignorant, relatively. They haven't been around long enough to learn much, after all. However, the quality of education has been empirically declining over many decades, and mobile devices are extemely efficient accelerants of brain rot.
CIFS or NFS?
You rely on professional fabricators of misinformation to tell you the truth about who is producing misinformation? Don't fall for crude propaganda. When empires end they do some self-destructive things. It's normal.
The new generation of Russian fast neutron reactors use lead and lead-bismuth as coolant, not sodium anymore. They are not proper breeders, as I understood it.
Thorium fuel cycle is useful for weapon production. Germany also abandoned thorium despite no interest in weapon production.
I only use MS stuff on my work notebook. My wife and kid do use it, though.