@Volen We are not going to make Google Camera into a specially privileged app by default. It works without the special privileges and therefore we also can't approach it in the same way we did with the privileged eSIM activation app. Many and perhaps even most users will want to use it without special privileges. We cannot remove that option.
It's would be entirely possible to add a toggle for privileged Google Camera access. It would have to be cleanly implemented and very uninvasive to be accepted as a GrapheneOS feature and it's not an ideal solution. It was never a significant issue on any previous Pixels so it was never on our radar as something worth implementing. There's only a significant impact on Portrait mode on the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. It still works and still provides the same quality without the privileged access. This means only a small number of users have even noticed that there's an issue. You've been making it sound as if the app doesn't work at all.
Your approach to complaining about this issue is becoming a serious problem. You're making significant exaggerations and are spreading misinformation about GrapheneOS. Repeatedly asking people to file more issues and to bother us about this is particularly inappropriate. We're not going to allow this to continue.
Google Camera would ideally be able to use standard hardware acceleration APIs for everything instead of needing special privileged access for certain functionality. They're working on improving it and have made it a lot better already.
Perhaps a significant number of people want there to be a toggle for privileged Google Camera access, in which case it may make sense to add it, but we have far too many much higher priorities to address... so unless you or something else is going to contribute instead of complaining, it's unlikely to happen any time soon.
