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Same as the other commenter, Pixel 7 + default Android OS. I appreciate the third party ROMs existing but haven't really bothered going through all that in a few years. Way back I did used to install CyanogenMod but it always felt like a bit of a hassle with random bugs, phone restarts... at some point I bought one of the early Pixels and felt the stock Android worked well enough. My own motivation early on was to avoid the phone bloat/random apps that were pre-installed on non-Google Android phones.
That aside I may take another look at this stuff if it becomes impossible to sideload apps on stock Android OS with Google forcing app developers to verify themselves. And/or check out Linux-based phones.
Typing this out just realized LineageOS started out as a fork of CyanogenMod so I guess that code still exists in some capacity even today.
I have tried LineageOS (Flashed it on my Pixel before reverting back to stock) and MAN that is a ROM done right. Its literally how Android should be. Next to zero...ZERO Bloat. Your app drawer is like 1/4 full because there is simply nothing on the phone!