Comment by Aachen

I don't need to "buy" a third-party identification service when buying a phone from my favorite vendor. I can use F-Droid, download an APK from Codeberg or Microsoft, or run software that I've made myself

What store fees should we be paying just to be able to run our own software, and friends' software, on our own hardware?

I don't see a hypothetical here. It's how Android has always worked