PostmarketOS has a list of officially supported devices. Sadly that list is empty. We can wait but it's not going to happen by itself. Maybe everyone interested could fund a dev working on getting one device to be officially supported? I don't know if that would be welcome by the project. My point is, with the current pace, is the goal moving closer or further away?

Probably not time yet. The interim is an alternate OS such as lineage or graphene. Don't use google play and you're fine.

Basically that's a short term solution to wait out this stupid policy to get fixed, or if they double down it gives Linux phones a bit more time to come to market (I have not used one, but its essentially unanimous they are not ready to be a replacement today).

As long as your phone doesn't have Google Play services, it would not apply. With that said, if app developers decide to capitulate and allow this to occur, then there might be a lot fewer apps you can get to work on lineage OS without Google Play services.

The way I see it, lineage and graphene will either have to fork AOSP and become operating systems in their own right instead of in name only. We will have to switch to Linux phones even though they aren't quite ready yet and deal with the hassle to get them ready, or have to abandon mobile entirely and go back to laptops and desktops and just declare mobile as a dead platform.

Any password manager worth its salt will be able to generate 2FA OTP codes. I know KeePassXC can do it on desktopas an example. Banking apps may have to be replaced with banking websites. I actually switched to my bank for this exact reason, because my previous bank would not allow me to use the website for full functionality, which is why they are my previous bank. I'm betting somebody would be willing to port OSMAnd onto Linux mobileif it or something similar is not already available.

That’s not going to happen

Doesn't look like anything for Ubuntu Touch, PostmarketOS or even LineageOS. If you are looking at another phone each of the operating system's websites list compatibility and what features are supported.

As far as the app library thing is concerned, I think that depends on the distro and if there are special requirements for the apps it runs. However, if it can just simply run Linux packages with a touchscreen interface, then I already mostly migrated to multiplatform foss apps that I can export my settings to.

However I really don't want to buy a new phone anytime soon. I was planning for this one to last me atleast 5 years.

Yeah there's versions based on AOSP such as Lineage and Graphene. If nothing else I hope F-Droid remains operational for them.

That calls for another question: would Google vet and mod content on other stores joining in? From their logic, installing apps from Epic Store is a sideloading too unless they themselves approve it, no? I hope that this act would be seen as a violation of a current decision, them going for a second round with EG.

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Sadly, some apps I require, does not function on GrapheneOS or other ROMs. :(