when i call family the calls usually fuck up alot. either they hear me and i don'y hear them or vice versa... or calls just entirely drop.

this is irregardless of it being over phonelines or a VoIP like Signal.

we both use stock android so far but i really intend to move us both to atleast an open source fork of android, leaving a secondary device with stock android to comply with demands of having a digital ID for citizenship stuff like banks online payments and logging into government sites.

but to reiterate: why do stock android fuck up calls so much? is it just intended to fuck with people's mental health, like an agent programmed to do this or is it ineptitude on the behalf of billion dollar corporations?

why do stock android fuck up calls so much?

In 10+ years of using stock android phones I have not had that experience at all.

On android since Nokia fucked up symbian. Never had such experience. I think your provider sucks or the reception in your are sucks or your phones have broken antennas or whatever...

what phone do you use exactly?

FairPhone 5 and my family member uses whatever comes at a discount every other year when "their previous phone breaks down" (always software issues only)

idk i don't chalk it up to a "just me" issue

I think it's maybe one call in 20 for me, but usually voip calls rather than regular

There have been instances where I have seen such behaviour , but it has almost always boiled down to ISP hardware in a very specific location. Multiple different devices in different locations? Most likely user error

i mean this is all true of them

Never once for me.

I've never had an issue. Used Android for memory years with zero issues.