I read it as "Google having control was bad, but Google had been using that control to stop very bad things, so in practical terms this is actually bad news."

nah.... sure we will have ad filed stores and all that bs but that is currently happening on xiaomi and realme phones anyways.... they have OS level ads and people are fine with it....

i am interested in having F-droid as a respectable store that has some more polish, aurora-store type features would be nice things to have.

and having ability to "delete system apps" that is only possible on stock android or in my case moto phones only.... i don't have google crap installed and untill now, xiaomi/realme/oppo and others couldn't do that even if they wanted. now they can.....

think of it this way. W10, w11 has a lot of nonsense but for technically inclined, there is the debloater so anyone who is interested can do that and that should happen here also