Support DRM-free purchases from places like https://www.gog.com or https://www.humblebundle.com (when they're not doing a DRM sale) if this kind of thing bothers you. Exclusives are also something that should probably die. Portability of games shouldn't be a problem in 2017.
Edit: buying from the creator/studio directly is also often another option, but less convenient and reliable.
As far as native bookmarks, I don't like that browsers have kind of black boxed their bookmarks and require individual proprietary cloud sync for these things (I realize Firefox has a self hosted option, but it's kind of outdated and last I checked the documentation was spotty. Even then it's only FF).
I know there's also the Netscape Bookmark Format which is kind of sketch, but at least it's something. I tried writing something that exported on close, I'd sync them myself, then imported on open, but it was pretty hacky (edit: also browsers exports are often very different so there was some normalization there that was fragile). There should be a way to setup an endpoint to natively sync this stuff with an open protocol and then all your bookmarks on all clients look the same. If you don't like that service, export someplace else and change your endpoint. Browsers should just be boxes for structured content.
Thanks for the update and sorry for the misinformation. The performance is much better than the few apps I've seen advertise "non-GCM" so I definitely believe it.
This is a good move. Modernization with sensible deprecation and scope re-evaluation with downsizing when more powerful alternatives exist. Too often codebases get bigger when they should really get smaller.
I use lineage, but not microg. Things like Conversations poll effectively enough and it keeps me off the Google.
I feel like this isn't a solution for the planned obsolescence inherent in mobile devices though. Every release after Google officially drops support (and provides their own image) gets exponentially harder. The amount of things moving out of AOSP and into Play services grows every month too.
edit: It even has nuclear reactors! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBwygvEJNA