and if you go without google play services its gonna take some adjustments, like figuring out that all of the sudden google maps don't really work well inside because the phone doesn't see the gps satellites etc
no real deal breakers, just convenience tradeoffs
Yes, was gonna mention this too.
For me, I started out with no Play Services. But after understanding how the GoS team has sandboxed Play Services, I decided to still use Play Store and even some Google Apps, but using heavily locked down permissions (eg. I installed Gboard with zero network access).
Finding a balance is key to sticking with it!
