I'm just going to note that Hacker News seems to attract people in the 99th percentile of unusual use cases. And that's fine in and of itself, but there seems to be a lack of perspective that leads to people in generalizing from their unrepresentative use cases. I would be willing to bet anything that the vast majority of users are not people who have 10 repos. Do you disagree?
As for your numbered points, I would say that a occasionally experienced 1, and never experienced two, three, or four.
I've used F-Droid on a Moto G, a Moto G3, Moto Z 2 3 and 4, a Moto E, a Nexus 7, a Pixel C tablet, across numerous versions of Android and Lineage OS. I've installed and uninstalled F-Driod dozens of times and installed and uninstalled hundreds of apps over several years across somewhere between a half dozen and a dozen devices. I've probably used at most 3-4 repositories.
So, what does all of that mean? Well, nothing other than that I can't confidently generalize from a one-off anecdote. Even if I'm really really personally convinced that my anecdote is the most important anecdote to end all anecdotes.
The problem is that internet comment sections are driven by psychological forces that don't necessarily translate into data from which it's safe to draw broad generalizations.
As for your numbered points, I would say that a occasionally experienced 1, and never experienced two, three, or four.
I've used F-Droid on a Moto G, a Moto G3, Moto Z 2 3 and 4, a Moto E, a Nexus 7, a Pixel C tablet, across numerous versions of Android and Lineage OS. I've installed and uninstalled F-Driod dozens of times and installed and uninstalled hundreds of apps over several years across somewhere between a half dozen and a dozen devices. I've probably used at most 3-4 repositories.
So, what does all of that mean? Well, nothing other than that I can't confidently generalize from a one-off anecdote. Even if I'm really really personally convinced that my anecdote is the most important anecdote to end all anecdotes.
The problem is that internet comment sections are driven by psychological forces that don't necessarily translate into data from which it's safe to draw broad generalizations.