I disagree with your first paragraph, especially the conclusion. Case in point: Facebook is still doing just fine at their data collection even though they are (yet) only at the application layer. But I don't want to keep beating this bush.

In the end, all I can say is "if you are so worried about Google's Android, go ahead fight the good fight, get a Fairphone with a custom ROM without g-services, or with any other OS. Asking for Android as a whole to be killed is short-sighted and will not achieve anything"