There weren't scare screens, at least I don't remember any, but the upgrade flow was comically bad for apps installed outside of the Play Store. Let's say you

There weren't scare screens, at least I don't remember any, but the upgrade flow was comically bad for apps installed outside of the Play Store. Let's say you install 15 apps on F-Droid. Every time you want to upgrade your apps, you were forced to manually initiate, and then sit through, each app update as they're installed in the foreground. This was because of deliberate limitations in Android. Whereas on the Play Store, you could hit one button to update all of your installed apps and the installations happened in the background. I believe it was after Google was threatened with lawsuits that they modified Android to be less tedious when it comes to managing and upgrading apps outside of the Play Store.