Yeah, I mean why have nice built in stuff - far better to go and buy everything separately. For instance cars should have seats, stereos, gps, etc... it'd be better for you to go to 3rd party sellers and buy them.
I think the analogy in this case would be a car company which gives you a choice of three different types of seat, five different types of stereo, and the option of built-in GPS from whoever when you configure your new car in the first place.
I’m not even against first-party apps, I just want them to be competing fairly instead of being mandatory pre-installs (with the exception of security-critical parts like the OS, the phone and SMS apps, the wallet apps, the App Stores themselves; but even then, there is room for them to be opened securely, it is just harder to do right, and should probably be replaceable later rather than during setup).
I’m not even against first-party apps, I just want them to be competing fairly instead of being mandatory pre-installs (with the exception of security-critical parts like the OS, the phone and SMS apps, the wallet apps, the App Stores themselves; but even then, there is room for them to be opened securely, it is just harder to do right, and should probably be replaceable later rather than during setup).