I use quite a few simple apps, especially Calendar and Gallery, and I haven't found alternatives that I am satisfied with. I can't wait to use a Linux phone at this point.
To be fair, those apps were plagued with poor security practices to begin with. Switch to GrapheneOS and get your apps via Obtainium. Check out privsec.dev for why you shouldn't use F-droid. Open source apps are great but some have really bad security practices unfortunately.
Bullshit. Never listen to those US Big Tech evangelists. GrapheneOS is the singular most vile group in privacy community, and adds harmful features without user or community consent, and has only one project contributor/committer who lies about everyone harassing him, attacking him or trying to help swat/murder him, and never gives evidence for anything while crybullying everyone.
By your logic, we should all stop using open source apps and only use closed source corporate software.
The drama around one of the devs does not affect the quality of the project. It also has nothing to do with US Big Tech. GrapheneOS is free and open source software. That being said, not all FOSS is made equal and you should avoid projects that don't take security seriously.