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The original was posted on /r/fossdroid by /u/Fluffy_Boulder on 2024-11-04 10:38:02+00:00.
I honestly don't even care about the whole open source part, and I am willing to pay for good apps.
But even so, FOSS apps are often times the only viable option for me these days because they're usually spared from all the BS most playstore apps are riddled with.
Stuff like overpriced subscriptions, massive amounts of ads, 'features' like Ai integration, dubious permissions like calculators that want to make phone calls, forced account creation, pointless social media integration, EULAs that signs over your firstborn, psychological manipulation to literally get you addicted to an app and so on.
The playstore itself isn't exactly a well-designed, either.
When looking for an app, I would often go through like 10 apps on the playstore, and every last one of them would be utterly unusable for one reason or another, even the ones with 5-star ratings.
These days, I check what F-droid & co got to offer before I even consider opening the playstore...