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Google services are totally optional and it downloads them only if you choose to install them. I actually have a separate user profile from the main one with it installed just for the odd app that actually has it as a hard requirement. Secondary profiles are also easy to just wipe when you don't need them any more and you can checkbox install any app already on your main profile to them.
I haven't heard of banking apps entirely not working when I was researching this phone choice. Basically if it doesn't work right after installing it, you long press the icon, hit app info, scroll down and enable exploit protection compatibility. Mine needed this but has had no issues other than that.
You also don't get root but that's a security hole anyways. The one thing I wish you could do is copy libjni_latinimegoogle.so from the Google keyboard to the system lib/lib64 folders to get swipe typing on the stock keyboard which has worked for me on my previous phones. I'm currently using Gboard with all the permissions disabled in app settings and hopefully that's good enough.
Graphene also has the built in OS updating you would expect of any stock rom which is nice since I had been manually updating custom roms for years now.