It depends on what you mean by “out of the box”. e.g. The Librem 5 doesn’t have sshd installed “out of the box” either. And if you count an “apt install”, then I can include browsing to f-droid and installing termux.
Are you virtue signalling?
Reminder: AOSP if Free. GrapheneOS is Free. I can understand that you may not want proprietary drivers, but don’t confuse an Android OS and its qualities and capabilities with the nature of the drivers supplied by most vendors.
Also: The topic was “battery life” and someone suggested that the better battery life on Android was somehow due to Android being less capable. That, IMO, is clearly not true — and I pointed out why. I’m not sure anything you’re saying here disputes that.