It's even worser, tons of applications are not working properly if your phone is rooted (so if you put there proper adblocker etc.) or without google apps.
This is a false statement that one can bypass root detecting in just one or two more steps. Anyone saying this might not know implications of Google Safety Net. And, popular tools like magisk have been defeated repeatedly. It is a cat and mouse game.
Magisks have stopped providing patches to games that helped to bypass root detection.
But I pretty much don't. I hoped that it will be as easy as disabling cortana on windows 10, but degoogling your phone is super user-unfriendly and something that almost has to become your hobby.
But for people thinking about it, its still worth it, with Afwall+ to not have ads in any app, newpipe to have functionality of youtube premium and barinsta to make sure you are not dragged into endless reels recommendations on instagram, its magic.
Barinsta got DMCAed or something, F-Droid page is up [1] but the GitHub (linked from there) isn't, and the F-Droid package is still from last summer 2021.
I use a Pi-Hole in my LAN, and Wireguard to it. Low latency so works very well, and given it has a killswitch my connection is always secure -- public WLAN or WAN be damned. The downside is my device and all apps have access to my LAN. Although some of my devices are on a DMZ, and the Pi-Hole works from there as well but the rest of the LAN not.