Yes, we should, otherwise this becomes just another derailed, completely off-topic discussion thread. Please go elsewhere if you intend to bash others for (often just assumed) different opinions. This also implies to refrain from generalising: It the governments making political decisions, not all citizens of a country! E.g. almost half of the US-Americans did not vote for Trump and there is very little a Russian citizen can do against the war in Ukraine. Consequently such generalisations are always perceived as unjustified, personal attacks by many.
Also Jolla did not break ties with OMP (Open Mobile Russia, the company which develops AuroraOS) out of nobleness, they knew as a EU-based company that this business will become infeasible under the tightening sanctions, because OMP is owned by Rostec, a huge state-owned technology conglomerate which (via other subsidiaries) is also involved in weapons production.
As part of the original question is “Who is using AuroraOS?”:
It is (as already discussed here) primarily intended for governmental entities in Russia for maintaining digital sovereignity, an aspect which is arguably much more important for the FSB than the ministry of agriculture. IMO it is also understandable that Russian governmental entities do not want to rely on certificates issued by western companies: Due to the sanctions they have to, because these western companies are not allowed to renew (prolong the validity period of) extant certificates or issue new ones; also avoiding the possibility of these certificates to become retracted (i.e. invalidated, which would be disruptive for IT-“business continuity” in Russian governmental entities and require issuing own certificates anyway) is logical.
“Curiosity” is a well understandable reason to obtain an AuroraOS device: I was about to do the same a while ago, but ultimately refrained from that, because I deliberately do not want to put any personal efforts into a closed-source software stack (hence I ceased using Windows 20 years ago). There is so much I can do to enhance and propagate Open Source Software, so I rather use my time for that.
Still I am curious what differences a direct comparison reveals: @RaZoR359, please report here when you have tried and analysed an AuroraOS device for a while.