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Google's SafetyNet, remote attestation and other anticompetitive features will ensure that Android apps won't run on Windows.

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How so? Remote attestation and other SafetyNet features are a product decision to use. If a company has an app that only allows itself to be run on a device with SafetyNet isn't that on them? Google doesn't force you to use it.

I think that is what the parent meant. SafetyNet will "prevent" android apps from running, as far as a (non-technical) user is concerned.

Google is providing the means to ensure apps will not run on anything but Google-blessed versions of Android.

If Microsoft had done the same, countless games and applications wouldn't run on WINE, and Proton and the Steam Deck wouldn't exist.

Security can be implemented in ways that aren't blatantly anticompetitive, but Google chose to go down the anticompetitive route for their offerings.

Maybe with MicroG?

If of interest, one can also pre-install Google Play Services during the prep work for sideloading WSA.

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