idk everything has its cons and pros.
if you downgrade
1. security downgraded ( in Ai era security is must whst will you do of +2 hour BB lol if your phone doesn't meet minimum security threshold)
2. rooting a device is for experimental device not for personal devices where you keep your ant single personal data, in 5G era your data on a vulnerable device could be compromised amd you will not found a solution on ChatGPT, claude or codex or your Tg friend or YT.
3. mod apks many users think without mod apks there life is miserable as a frog 🐸 without water, but remember even scibtificly it's proven there is nothing free in this world,
by mod apks your device is used as dead zombie proxy server, or for creating fake account by your device proxy even DDoS and MITM etc attacks, for hackers it's fun ,
4. you thinking by disabling play protect and thn loading ( apps side loading) you will outsmart Google or some other , NOPE not possible..
do experiment 🧪 🥼 in your dumb old devices with no PII data....