alt Hacker News>at least for my threat model
That is fine but obviously we are talking about threat model in comparison to each other.
>Google Play Services, which are needed
They are "needed" if you want to use other closed source apps that rely on play service feature. If you don't want/use closed source apps there is no reason to use Google play services at all, that's why they are optional.
>running with full access to all my data
GrapheneOS sandboxes play services specifically to run with user permission instead of system and can be used in a completely different isolated profile for your other private user data.
NixOS by itself does nothing to increase security outside of the supply chain. There is for example no default application sandboxing, Mandatory access control or hardened memory allocation (software or hardware). Just to name the most basic security feature.