Congratulations! Your plan sounds solid. I’m using Signal (Molly) as my messenger as much as possible. I’ve noticed that I’m not receiving texts from some iPhones. Some work and some don’t.

Newpipe is a great YouTube clone.

Vinyl music player is a great ITunes replacement. Zues wallet works flawlessly. Organic maps seems to work good but haven’t had an opportunity to use it in the wild. Mullvad VPN is great option.

There was definitely a bit of a learning curve but I stuck with and it paid off.