> If you ever doubt it, go check out Google Takeout. You'll be shocked at the amount of data you see there.

I sign in browser-wide and I do takeouts regularly. I don't see my browsing data.

> It doesn't ship with most essential apps, including a Phone app. In previous versions of Android, all of these were a part of AOSP.

And back when they were part of AOSP I never saw these example apps in the wild. Every vendor ships their own phone app. Every single one.

There's some "hey we compile a extremely old and vulnerable version of AOSP"-style Android distributions, mainly advertised for builtin su/Magisk or "degoogle", which did use these example apps, though.

I agree with other critics, they are toxic.