Worse than that, I've had it unilaterally block legitimate third-party apps I've installed from F-Droid. Then since I've disabled it, it constantly nags me to re-enable it so it can re-delete my third-party apps. If you want to talk about anti-competitive, Play "Protect" should be where you start.
It allows them to remotely remove any malicious app from Android devices without any user intervention.
1: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2752902/google-remotel...