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Xaiomi is installing versions with Microsoft-style spyware/malware in 'em..
Same as ISP's altering the web-pages that people view, for their own commercial-reasons...
Molesting-the-user seems to be THE SurveillanceCapitalism paradigm, in the Enshittocene..
I'm not competent to do the decompilation/analysis required to discover if your new "helpful" versions are spyware/malware, but I'd bet they are not as clean as the original versions are.
Avast has been caught being treason-against-privacy, recently, too, with their "privacy" app that was actually a trojan to enable Avast to sell privacy-information for profit..
( last few weeks in the Tech news, here on Lemmy.world, iirc )
You might want to ask the MalwareBytes people to look into it?
Without further evidence, I'd assume they just want to boost usage of their App Store. Since they're the O.E.M. of the phone and developer of the installed Android Rom, they could build in a back door in a much less conspicuous way.
Yeah I'm going with they're innocent. Just the UI with the install button and no explanation is not cool.