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Camera could be taking pictures of QR codes to make it easier to set up a VPN.
Bluetooth could be integration with things like Yubikeys for authentication.
Dunno if that's what they're actually for, though.
Best practices would not require camera permissions to scan qr codes.
https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/minimize-permission-requests
I'm going to assume they didn't implement this because money. Their app runs on everything, from iOS to Android to Windows. Cost savings they likely just flipped camera permissions and didn't care about small edge cases like these.
With that said, Mullvad is a million times better, cheaper and doesn't require even an email or account creation to use. They created a system that effectively anonymizes the user before they even subscribe.
I think you can use some of microG's APIs without connecting it to google.
It's just not implemented yet: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2018