FairPhone is developed and made in China. Most factories there cruelly exploit workers. I don’t think it’s more ethical than Apple, at least you can report the Chinese factories like Foxconn to Apple and it works. And they can’t ship latest Android major releases and security patches, which makes long term support useless.
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-standard-privacysecurity-patches-and-protections-arent-private