In the US, Staples, Best Buy, Batteries Plus, etc. all take them.

Pretty much anything Dan Schneider produced. Zoey 101, iCarly, Amanda Show, etc

In developer options on youransdroid phone there is a setting you can enable that will add a quick setting tile that toggles on and off the sensors in your phone. It also includes rhe microphone and camera. It's great for something like this.

This is not a direct solution to your question. The only available option currently is Florisboard. I tried it but it didn't work well for me. Ever since I've justbeen using openboard. Clean, fast, pretty accurate but no glide typing. There is an open issue for it and some POC work had been done but not merged into main.

Yup! I use it exclusively for PSP Soft modding.

SimpleLauncher. Does everything I need it to and nothing more.

I bought a Fire Tablet HD 10 just for that purpose. It gets the job done

I do keep track.Right now I've settled into GameEye but I've also been looking into koicollection.

Do they still offer a model without their app requirements?

I hear your frustration. My last couple phones have all been carrier unlocked models for that specific reason. But I agree that the brands you've listed seem to be the largest players producing phones supporting CDMA and GSM

Nice job. I'm definitely going to evaluate this next week.

All big tech analyzes our data. I rather they not analyze anything but since we'll never see that day, they can at least use their privacy invasion power for good.