Not sure why you’re all through this thread trying to defend google, but the entire point of why google is doing this is to close both sides of app installation- AOSP support is getting deprioritized/dropped, meaning there won’t BE downstream OSes, and then they’re trying to lock development behind Google’s approval, blocking non-gapps stores from being able to be installed on Google’s OS.

Did you not read what they were saying? They don’t want to, they would HAVE to.