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I doubt OP cares, but I use GrapheneOS with Google Play services. It's still better than regular Android. Don't give up because you can't get 100%
I would imagine that having a full control of the underlaying system would allow a wrapper to be developed for the Play Services, so it would not to be able to spy on you so well. Just feeding some partially spoofed data to it, or even whitelist it to work only with the apps that require it.
That's exactly what the GraphendOS project did. IF you choose to install Google's bullshit, which I did to use Maps and such, they run in a wrapper that makes them usable without the level of system access they typically require.