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4 months agoWell, yes and no.
/e/ is more de-Googled than LineageOS, and it also replaces some GApps with its own ecosystem (whereas LineageOS just gets rid of them). I would say that this makes it slightly more private.
However, /e/ also takes a lot longer to apply updates from upstream Android. LineageOS and GrapheneOS both take a few days up to a few weeks to do this; whereas /e/ sometimes takes months.
In the past, I would have recommended DivestOS and Calyx OS, but sadly DivestOS is unmaintained and Calyx OS have temporarily stopped releasing or updating their OS.
LineageOS still uses Google for things like captive portal detection and DNS (at least, out-of-the-box). /e/ replaces these with their own services.