It’s the same false comfort as the gazillion clone-a-chrome browsers. If you are not going to bother about alternatives and just faff around with band-aid “privacy” measures, that is just marginally prolonging the complete failure of anything open.
We don’t need an arms-race. We need things that are fundamentally uninterested in your data.
That’s not to say AAS isn’t a nice feature; it most definitely is - and BT passthrough would make a neat addition. Some android apps even aren’t bad; and sometimes you actually don’t have a choice. But for gimmicks i will vote with my money and get something better. The correlation from closed apps to premature obsolescence surely must be just about 100%.