[LG V30 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] ChazzMatt:
We have several custom ROMs. Tell me how many you think we have? I count 11 custom ROMs, and we'll probably have more. But how many can you run at one time? :p

I bought my V30+ before we had any custom ROMs. The hardware features on the phone is the reason to buy it. Look at this list below and tell me what other phone can match it? Surely, not the OnePlus 6T, which is a "pretender" phone, pretending to be a premium phone... I count at least SEVEN items on the list the OnePlus 6T does NOT have:

LG V30/V30+

1440P OLED (537 ppi)

Qi wireless charging

3.5mm headset jack

Quad DAC

IP68 dust/water resistance

rear camera OIS on normal lens - plus 120 degree wide angle lens

superfast fingerprint sensor

64GB (V30) or 128GB (V30+) internal storage

microSD port for additional storage

bootloader unlock and root

no notch

Your premise is faulty. ;)Unofficial is often better. One of the best reasons to have "unofficial" is the dev can add a few minor features that "official" status doesn't allow. For example, over in the Droid Turbo/Moto Turbo/Moto Maxx (Motorola Quark) forum the "unofficial" LOS ROM IS LOS -- but also has a handful of the best features from Resurrection Remix (which is the most popular ROM in that forum). Official LOS would be too sparse, whereas all the options in RR can sometimes be too much. ;) Unofficial LOS is just right. Here's a couple of features the LOS ROM over there has, which keeps it not"unofficial:

* being able to use Motorola firmware flags to download Google Store apps only meant for Motorola phones. Sounds simple enough, but Quark "official" LOS apparently doesn't allow that?

* Or being able to re-purpose the Droid Turbo/Moto Turbo/Moto Maxx "low battery" green LED for notifications LED. Feature apparently not allowed by LOS. Other things too, that are just helpful.

Over there (Moto Quark forum) we kept having to explain why you do NOT want "official" LOS vs "unofficial". With unofficial, you can take the LOS and make it better.

Similarly, the Moto Quark dev who made Bliss ROM over there wasn't allowed to put his popular tweaks in, so while he gave a link to "official" Bliss ROM no one really bothered to download it. Users kept asking for his "personalized" version, which he had to label differently to not violate ROM group rules. ;) He started out as "unofficial", then went to the trouble to receive official ROM status -- but then everyone begged for what he put in the UNofficial ROM. So, he kept cranking out "personalized" versions, as the official version was "crippled".

Point is, ROM groups have strict rules about what can be labelled official and it's not always a benefit to the user. Yes, it's a benefit that you mostly get the same user experience across devices -- but for our device with quad DAC, for instance the dev may have to do something "not allowed" by the ROM group to make it work, etc.

[MENTION=3475147]SGCMarkus[/MENTION] can talk about why this ROM isn't official, but in my experience -- starting around 2015? -- I noticed the "official" CM/LOS ROMs were the least popular of all the ROMs on a device, while "unofficial" or other ROMs with more options are the most popular.