raphidae I don't have much to say on this topic, as the community has already done a fairly good job of addressing your "concerns".
You're entitled to wanting to see a feature land in GrapheneOS, or have an existing feature expanded. What is not acceptable, however, is to approach things in this weird conspiratorial way as you currently are.
GrapheneOS uses the AOSP dialer. By default, it doesn't implement call recording. The project eventually implemented call recording support in the dialer due to high demand. The implementation used isn't the best, though improved over other implementations in other alt OSes. It works okay. Then, there was the issue of the RTT option covering the call recording option, for which the team had to develop another patch to enable scrolling for that option so that even if that is the case, people have the ability to do call recording.
As you can see, expanding this feature to include a toggle for automatic call recording is planned, although low priority (as per the label). The GrapheneOS issue tracker does not keep issues open that it doesn't plan to implement or doesn't want to the extent possible. The mere fact that the issue is open means the project would be okay with including this.
There was someone who was going to work on this, but they don't work on the project at this point. I'm sure that having this thing is very important to you, but the project currently has a relatively small team and has been dealing with a myriad of other things (porting, fixing upstream bugs, implementing MTE, adding and expanding security features to the OS), so there hasn't been time from someone from the team to implement this (low priority) issue yet.
For your theory to work that someone is somehow coercing GrapheneOS to not do this, why would the team implement call recording in the first place? Why would GrapheneOS specifically make it so that it doesn't have a country list or play any tones depending on country (instead warning the user to follow their local laws) ? GrapheneOS did the opposite of what you're saying. They made call recording usable anywhere without blocklists or tones depending on juridstiction.
You're assuming the code cited in that issue works, and is clean enough to go into the OS. Are you a developer? Perhaps you could help submit a clean patch to add this functionality in the OS.
Your comment on the tracker was not removed because of a "grand conspiracy". It was removed because it was unessecarily pinging and sending e-mails to all participants in that issue and accusing the team of holding back features which would be clear to you if you'd followed GrapheneOS development that the project implements features that I'm sure make certain groups unhappy due to upping the ante when it comes to anti-exploitation.
I hope that on top of the replies you've received from other community members, it's enough to explain both what's up with the specific feature, why your comment was deemed disrespectful and was removed, and why we would prefer something actionable (a clean PR) rather than conspiracy theories and complaining. Thank you.