It makes sense for Google to comply with the law. It would be good for Google to act in good faith, instead of facilitating frivolous spam complaints and preventing their legal resolution through subversive threats to the victim businesses on their platforms.

I would recommend a different front end for fdroid repo like droidify, neo store etc. I haven't used official fdroid app in ages but the 2 above are pretty good. Has many categories to choose from and search works fairly decent as well.

I have F-Droid and it's good. I tried Aurora Store but it didn't seem to have a search function, just lists of a few apps from random categories. Almost reminded me of browsing Netflix.

Yep eventually in the deGoogle quest you just reach a point where you're like "Well I guess I'm just not using that app anymore. Time to hit up AlternativeTo.net"

I would

They might not be worried about sloppy copycats. But Luanti is a solid, evolving, open source project and thus an actual threat.

IMO as the "open source revolution" continues, capital will continue to attack. That's a major subtext to the "AI" grift too. Securitizing "IP" against "China", etc. They would rather have a nuclear holocaust than lose their "IP" privilege to open source software.