I miss the freewheeling days of Android apps. You'd find all kinds of apps made by solo devs as a labor of love. Later, Google largely killed those apps by severely downranking them in the play store algorithm, and made searching in the play store "we'll show you what we want to show you, the filters do nothing", but you could still install a secondary app store in CyanogenMod and find those weird and fun apps. Is there any of this left? I've heard that the secondary app stores have fallen into disrepair.
F-Droid is what you want. You can find all manners of apps - libre replacements for all your stock system apps, alternate launchers, games, clients for your favorite desktop apps (ex: mpv), and even a proper terminal emulator - complete with a package manager.
