I use Obtainium (available in F-Droid) alongside F-Droid since both have auto-updates
this is still tolerable to the old days of updating manually
biggest upside is I can update Tubular/Newpipe faster via Obtainium while F-Droids build system takes days
thats more Anarchism than Leftism isn't it
at least if you believe governments aren't efficient to make the world a better place