[deleted] That's not the same thing. Gallery's functionality can be replaced with another Gallery app implementing the required intents. System camera apps cannot be replaced with another app. This is explained in our release notes and the Android documentation. The reason we marked as mandatory is because it can't be replaced and disabling it will break other apps depending on the system media capture intents working.
You quoted our release notes but you're ignoring the explanation we provided. You understand this part:
Settings: add GrapheneOS Camera to list of mandatory components
The explanation is there right afterwards:
since only system camera apps can provide the media capture intents required by other apps on Android 11 and above