Ok, you go and tell all the companies to stop using apps.

My car charger? Controlled with an app.

Location of car chargers? In an app.

My bike GPS? Controlled with an app.

My gym entry? An app.

Climbing wall? An app.

You tell all those companies to stop using apps and add control panels to everything, go back to paper maps and RFID entry cards. I'm sure they will do it if you explain to them that there are dozens of users that don't want to register with Google. Dozens!

Most of us don't need apps, but they're extremely convenient.

The point is separating convenience from profit-obsessed CEOs and surveillance-crazy governments.

Nobody needs mobile phones, we had a world without them, we can do it again...

https://docs.waydro.id/usage/install-and-run-android-applications

You may want to install F-Droid to get applications graphically. Or use the Play Store if you installed a GAPPS image.

Still depends on Play Store.