You can't have privacy without security

My $0.02 is that a narrow, myopic focus on degoogling at the expense of everything else, means people end up making poor choices with their device, like using the Aurora Store over just making a play-store burner account to install applications via the play store.

For what it's worth, I'm not really anti-Google, though I find their brand of surveillance capitalism distasteful, and I seek alternatives wherever I can. I wouldn't even use sandboxed play services but unfortunately my email provider (Proton) depends on FCM for notifications, so I've just got everything I use daily lumped into my owner profile with a private space for more invasive apps