Destroying Gapps

I am using my Pixel 2 with LineageOS with Gapps as a secondary phone as a catch all for the proprietary apps that I need. There’s always an itch to completely erase Gapps from this phone and use microG instead. The thought of Google services and apps having root access from this phone irks me a lot.

I decided to remove my dependency on Gapps now and won’t even use microG to replace it. Any app that would cry about the missing Google services, I will not use it indefinitely. This is a challenge as most apps really want these services specially the proprietary ones, but I suspect that this will simplify my phone usage as I will drop a lot of apps in the long run and be left with a few. This is just about the same setup as my main phone, just with all the proprietary apps.

I am willing to embrace inconvenience.

I am always trying to own my device, not the other way around.