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I feel like the pool of Lemmy users who are willing to use a closed source app but not use the play store has to be incredibly small.
I feel there are a lot of custom rom users here which don't have play services built-in or its hard to implement
Yeah, but I feel like those people are mostly going to gravitate towards FOSS clients
If they are decent, there is a limit of pain each Foss person can take
Choice and variety are important. If you only have one option/style, it will only take that one option failing for it to ruin things for everyone. What if Google Play somehow blocks an attack that foss-downloader apps are exposed to? What if the opposite happened?
Also, not having choices means that the official "choice" being made might not always be to your liking.
I think the amount of non Play Store/App Store users overall is very small. With GraphineOS at least I can restrict the app.
But I bet we skew towards the "have considerable amounts of disposable income" of the economic spectrum.