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Hopefully I can provide useful answers here.
Oddly, I didn’t have to do a reset because flashing effectively is a reset by itself. Because the person who developed the image is Korean, note that the phone will come up (mostly) in Korean, so adding the English gboard and then setting the language to English is both a must and (for me was) slightly confusing to do.
Currently I have replaced the gallery app with google photos, and that seems to be working fine. I tried to replace the built in message app with Signal, but signal seems unstable on the phone and so I switched back to the built in app. I haven’t tried the default android app. I had to replace the built in phone app with Simpler Dialer because with the new rom the built in dialer is very unstable and can crash the phone when receiving incoming calls.
Since I mostly use iOS devices (I don’t really like android tablets), I generally use reading apps that work with both iOS and android. Of those, I find google play books has probably the best typography. I also like my ad-free, purchased versions of FBReader premium and CalibreBox, which I could figure out a way to side load, but would then have to remember to update manually.
In non-reading apps, I have the paid 1Password, and use hangouts fairly frequently.
Honestly, it’s fairly easy to get by well enough without gapps, but the flash process was easy enough once I tried it with a fresh windows install (on a virtual machine no less) that I certainly don’t regret it.
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