Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree with you. I bought my device, I should own it and install whatever the fuck I want. Whatever the fuck google is doing is putting barrier in opening “their market to other stores”. This is malicious compliance in google’s part that 'oh yeah you can install from whatever source but you gotta do this list of ridiculous thing before you do". I am only surprised the “install from any source” isn’t a paid ‘DLC’.

I do realize when I wrote what I wrote, I sound like a employee from the marketing department of google. My words “I think I’m ok with this” is probably wrong, more like I kinda understand the notion behind it, (assuming a world where they were doing this in good faith, which they are not).

But. Scams are a thing, and elderly are good targets, something to help against that (which wasn’t apparently an issue until now for google) would be great. What they are offering does help a bit, but it’s not a good way. I do hope there will be a better solution than this.