What the parent is saying is that even though you can still login, the functionality of the other gapps has been hobbled for a long time. I can confirm a varie

What the parent is saying is that even though you can still login, the functionality of the other gapps has been hobbled for a long time. I can confirm a variety of problems with old Android 4-6 devices. This includes a no longer functional Play store on a couple of devices, YouTube app slowly but surely failing etc.