More freedom would be to choose the phone you want and sideload whatever you want to it.

Fennec on F-Droid, which is Firefox fork

Isn’t it more vulnerable since it’s based on older version? Correct me if I’m wrong

Audacity isn’t a good replacement at all for those. It has a different purpose. There should be LMMS and Ardour instead

They’re working on European search indexer along with Ecosia