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Use of non-play store apps is not mainstream enough for Linux phones to get more than a little bump from this.
At this stage, it helps when more devs are motivated to switch over and build/improve stuff to cover the things they want to do with a phone. And there's relatively many devs among those who use F-Droid.
I'm not technically affected by Google doing l this just yet, because I don't use the Play Services, but with that move coming after they encroached on Custom ROMs twice, I can tell that I need an exit plan. And there's nothing quite for motivation than slowly being backed into a corner.
I hope something good comes of it.