@paolo @ilumium It always uses multiple Google services whether or not microG is used. See https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm which covers some but not all of the non-microG Google connections. They integrate microG with privileged access and that makes connections to Google too, and unfortunately without preserving important standard security checks for those.
This really doesn't matter compared to the disaster of having such incomplete and significantly delayed privacy/security patches and other issues.