Play is a Google service. It kind of smacks of something beginning with "h" and ending with "ypocrisy" when you still use a Google service after going through the requisite self-flagellation to go out of your way to
not use them, and then write a tone-deaf article on how awesome it is to do so.
It doesn't make much sense that someone would go through all this effort to ditch a company and still use one of their flagship products. That would be like me swearing off Apple and still carrying an iPhone.