Not necessarily. Google is certainly just as complicit as Apple in pushing their services, but you can still use Android and even Pixel hardware without Google (or with anti-Google mitigations). This mostly comes down to the openness of the AOSP and availability of unlocked hardware, which luckily for Google is not that attractive on either count.

So, I'd say that Google is to Android what Canonical is to Ubuntu. Both are developing "open" products that technically qualify as Free software, but use their services to lock people into convenient but exploitative agreements. They're bad, but using Android without Google is much easier than using an iPhone without Apple.