Maybe he referred that Arrow OS still active and always updated, which is true. But I understand your point. It still need older MIUI firmware, While I don't really care about how it lagged behind in terms of Security, Performance, etc. It's really such a pain in the a** cause it's need a full MIUI firmware, even sometimes it's not booting into Arrow even though I installed the firmware based on the installation instructions.
Thank you for trying to clarify on the person's behalf.
I understand your frustration with flashing a full MIUI firmware.
When I was on ArrowOS, I was able to flash the updates via OTA, and that was perfect because it worked for months like that.
Until it didn't.
That's when I found that there was a lack of device specific support. In the xda thread you'd have to make your post and then wait for an eventual reply, if your post gets seen at all by the relevant parties.
Then in TG channels/groups, there is no specificity for your device, so you'd have to make sure to find the username relevant to the devs/admins that posted and/or responded the xda ArrowOS thread for lmi.
While responses there are faster (TG) without device specificity, your message get buried quickly, worse now with the stickers.
That is not only for ArrowOS but for many other ROM threads/groups as well.
On the other hand, I must say, if you don't really care for the extra customisation that CrDroid offers then go for ArrowOS, it's simple, clean, a decent daily driver and ArrowOS has given me the best battery duration of any ROM I've ever used, but this was an experience from January/February 2021.
For the booting issue;
What helped me a lot was using Pitch Black Recovery with the MIUI firmware indicated by the ROM post, and don't wipe cache/dalvik
For that guy
@NOSS8 ;
ArrowOS is updated quite regularly indeed.
I think you misunderstood then that I wasn't talking about the ROM version but more so the firmware base it was built on, the MIUI firmware.