How would that help you?

The article says, "unverified apps will only be easily installable in the sanctioned countries where verification doesn’t exist."

So even if you used a VPN to trick Google into thinking you live in a sanctioned country, you wouldn't be able to distribute apps to those countries without breaking sanctions.

We're still at least a couple of years out from that, the biggest issue at present is app compatibility, specifically in the context of banking apps. For everything else it is usable with some minor quirks

People should not reinvent the wheel. FOSS Android has already solved many problems which Linux always will have, by design.

Non-preemtive scheduler which doesn't take app usage into account will drain battery fast. Non-managed app platform is always a security risk.

The absence of a single app framework will always lead to a zoo. Any average Gnome installation bring all KDE and vise versa because different apps use different GUI and Desktop convenience libraries.

Google is trying to kill Android by moving more and more core functionality from OSS into proprietary services.

We need to fight back through forks and legislations. Android has started as a Linux phone 15 years ago? And has already solved a ton of inherent problems.

Does not matter for you if you are not spoofing your location too.

Morphe > revanced

So America's current administration could decide they don't like someone for petty reasons and cut that whole country off from using one of the two most adopted phone OS in the world?