That said basically everything benefits from the sun shining in on it. F-Droid alerts you to anything dodgy under the hood, has reproducible builds[1] and in general has none of the complete shitshow that is playstore.

In my 5EYES country Google's playstore has to secretly insert malware if the government wants it and there's no way for the end user to tell if that's the case.

Tell me a common use for a mobile app and we can compare what is available on both play store and f-droid.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/