And besides, the point of Replicant is to be "Android without proprietary code" as I understood it.

But why would someone want to have an Android clone is something I don't understand; Android is bad in many ways; it is slow, unreliable, java-oriented, ugly, uncomprehensible, noncomplient, difficult and developer-unfriendly.

If I have to choose between something that resembles Android and does not work and something that has binary blobs underneath but provides a real GNU userland, what do you think I will choose?