On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
Yeah this is what Bitwarden ended up doing. They didn’t want to be on F-Droid for very similar reasons; eventually they started hosting their own repo and its been gravey ever since. Highly recommend this option.