And for the spyware and malware that has the widest impact: they will be unaffected, because they publish straight on the Play Store themselves.

It will also affect developers who choose to or have to stay anonymous to protect themselves from bad actors like rogue governments, and make it harder to develop software that authorities do not want made, such as emulation software, or adblocking tools and clients, or law enforcement raid watches.

Your personal exclusion from these restrictions does not solve the problem for developers, nor the majority of people who use Android who can't, don't know how to, or afford a degoogled device.

Having to pay a company and send your government id to that company, who will absolutely turn that data over to the government, is not an acceptable way to develop software.

Especially as that government is actively targeting dissenters and anyone who opposes them.

Especially as that company is making plans to go into the PC space, creating computers more locked down than Windows.

Especially as that company already has an 'anti-virus' activated on every Android licensed device by default that flags and prevents these malicious apps.

Forgot that there is a newspaper (""newspaper"") called The Atlantic and so assumed you were using it as a reference to the Titanic's doomed situation