I agree is down to personal choice and preference when it comes to whether you wanted to FOLLOW the trend
Not only that, degoogling is also part of the recent trend I've noticed but I would not want to do that yet, as it involves completely reflash of your phone to a no-so-googlish OS (grapheneOS) and a lot more to do to decouple from google ecosystem.
I'm interested of how this is heading but I'm not sure how far and how many people will join in to "fight the big tech" as Proton CEO said