[altantiprocrast]

As binwiederhier said 'it is what it is' with proprietary platforms. However, you can still avoid going through Google now for the apps that do already support UnifiedPush

Additionally, supporting UnifiedPush (code and adoption by app devs) is supporting:

1. Non-google app stores (e.g. F-Droid with it's great selection of FOSS apps)

2. Google-free distributions of Android

3. Linux phones

The above amount to a small but non-trivial community, but imho supporting (or participating in) them ethically is something I like.