Right, F-Droid doesn’t offer mainstream apps and I think that’s OK. In the last few years you could see that mainstream apps are all programmed with advertising and trackers. Some have even mutated into malware. My philosophy is that I don’t want to feed Google or any other provider with my data. The Playstore is the largest distributor of sniffing software that I know. Even apps that I would pay for track me. Some time ago, the payment was there to switch off advertising. Today users are victims and providers of data, not customers. Security and privacy is a joke when Google, Apple, Amazon & Co talk about them. They distribute mainstream spyware.
That’s why I don’t need such apps and limit myself to user-friendly apps that respect me. Still, I don’t miss anything and as I said before, SFOS was a conscious decision for me. For every thing 1 app is good for commerce, but not for me.
One last word about the bad websites. This is nudging and should move you to download the apps. They offer significantly more opportunities to get to know us. Today this is called user experience, I call it data theft. It’s not really a problem to develop a fast mobile website in 2020, right? Apps would be unnecessary.
Sorry for OT