Oh hey, made it a priority to set the new phone up. It took a while since you have to manually install it all and grant exceptions for some things, but I'm mostly up and running.
All apps, including banking ones, seem to work. I did put Google Play and Play Services on for installing apps, but I'm ok with that. I also installed GBoard (with no network) because I could not use the default keyboard well.
I have a Google work profile, but I wonder if I really want to mess with that. I've been told it should work but so I care? As long as I can use the authenticator apps and Slack I should be ok. The calendar is what I care about most and I can get to that via Slack.
So yeah, all in all this was not a bad experience ( better than Qubes!) and I'm glad to not leak asuch data to Google or have all that bloat. I also like the suress password and being able to section things off.
Thanks @GrapheneOS!