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And when you need to use it, it's gone.

I have some bus schedule apps that i use when i travel to other cities so Android removing them will be an inconvenience.

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It's not a huge inconvenience in my experience, as the apps should be written to ask for permission if they don't have it. Thus it should be a single additional click in that case.

I much prefer that over apps having permissions "forever".

Only thing I dislike is that the Android permissions are quite coarse grained and intertwined. I still get asked for some seemingly irrelevant permission but when I check then it turns out it's just Androids permissions being weird.

thus one is getting used to granting random access permissions

I thought this was a Samsung feature.

On Samsung it doesn't uninstall it, it just removes permissions and then finally disables it.

What OS are you using that it uninstalls things?

I don't know about the immediate parent, but on my Pixel it doesn't uninstall anything automatically. It suggests apps to uninstall if you go to Files > Clean, but doesn't nag you about it.

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