not relying on google services to run

MITRE and the DOD audit plus countless other auditing is scientifical fact not up to debate. The interpretation that we can end up with those reality facts can totally be up to debate yes but not the facts in itself. So no it's not about being dogmatic or not and obviously you didn't read any of those audits which have begun their appearance in the public domaine around 2008? And it was certainly not a specific accusation against you, just to remind you the scientifical truth about FOSS.

And to remind you, it's you who brought up the fact of relocking. To remind you too, it's you who brought the graphene example to the table. Graphene which is only available on pixel phone which is a ridiculous low amount of devices compared to other s distributions which gives the ability to relock the device. So sure it's maybe not available on your device, but that doesn't make a general rule does it? and the other way it's also true. But your dogmatic point was, since it's not relockable universally then it's not receivable.... Well that a problem in logical discourse...

Thanks for repointing me to this thread that I was already aware of. So you would have like that I've answered to those more or less legitimate and illegitimate argument of the staff ?

And again it's not about being FOSS or not the problem it's about the fact that there is out there API as efficient than google play services to implement, since I need to list them:
QR code scanning (which is now integrate by default in every custom ROM)
FIDO2 security key support (which yubico gives all the help needed to implement it since should I really say, other FOSS equivalent are using them and not through google play services)

And the fact that the version needs to be up-to-date, come on are we really talking about that when there are dozens of implementation of those of update checking processes?

All those problems doesn't need much more dev, there are out there and they are FOSS most of the time. The fact that they don't want to implement them that's another story. I'm going to give a little example. We are using every day the implementation of google of the Zeller congruence for what? 10 years now?, it's FOSS obviously and it doesn't bother anyone apparently. So when it's convenient they are ready to use the available ressources but not when it's for the common benefits. If that's not political or ideological beliefs, I don't know what it is.