I can't speak for GP, but I switched to Hacker's Keyboard[1] which doesn't support gesture typing. I'm pretty happy with it, though it's pretty barebones (it doesn't even turn on the phone's radio). Took a bit getting used to -- the recommendations are different and it felt like the key hitboxes weren't the same as gboard, but it felt pretty familiar after a couple of weeks.

[1] https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard