It would then be a 0 but through their effort of locking it kind of out through hardware, they say they are 1. To quote a show I admire:
Mr. Robot : Tell me one thing, Elliot. Are you a one or a zero? That’s the question you have to ask yourself. Are you a yes or a no? Are you going to act or not?
Elliot : Yo… You’ve been staring at a computer screen way too long, homie. Life’s not that binary.
Edit: I remember being linked to a talk they did on stage about these blobs and you could see the frustration in their face when people were scrutinising them with questions so I think they won’t just try to do their best which means nothing but actually do a good job and just segregate through hardware. The whole purpose of the phone is to be a phone that is FOSS and if they do not even keep to that, what do they even represent? A ‘we tried’
Edit2: Maybe I just remember wrong but here is the video if you want to double check because my memory isn’t always persistent: https://youtu.be/rGHqSPnWEDw
Edit3: 37:06 is a timeslot I found and I think there may be more.