- no obscure ban for application vendors
- no mandatory account for installing apps and from which you can be banned
- no user tracking
If you don't like vendor lock-ins and its consequences, push for the alternatives.
Note that F-Droid often has build issues, with app version on F-Droid lagging months behind actually released version.
Ads are probably fine if they are shown using free software but will be marked as an anti-feature. Same for tracking.
In app payment is probably fine too, and will not be subject to a 30% fee or something.
I think the alternative is a simple web app. For many many apps it would work just fine. If it works in a browser on a PC, it really should work on a browser on a phone.
Few, but this might be a chicken-and-egg problem, if we want to have more power and get rid of the Play Store governance, this might be worth a try.
- no obscure ban for application vendors
- no mandatory account for installing apps and from which you can be banned
- no user tracking
If you don't like vendor lock-ins and its consequences, push for the alternatives.