Eh, I use a few apps that have true foss forks and thus don’t use gcm but the keep-alive method, and I didn’t notice a difference in battery when I made the switch.

Also lol #3 isn’t exactly a “burden”, take the hint and go away people. Let me live in blissful solitude.

Well I’d say those going the degoogle route learn about things like Unified, NLP, etc, along the way. But it is something the end user has to handle themselves, rather than it just being there in the OS.

It also means you will be on a very short list of people who use Unified Push.