This is the third time in the past few months that avoiding updates to Google apps on my Android phone has saved or would save me grief (with the first two time

This is the third time in the past few months that avoiding updates to Google apps on my Android phone has saved or would save me grief (with the first two times being an update to the dialer that would have broke my voicemail, and an update to another product that would have required that I agree to hand over more of my data), and with every incident, I just feel more vindicated.