I use Gboard with Glide in Portuguese Brazil and nowadays it works very well on Nokia 6.1, you just need to put the right velocity fingers and stops, it takes some time, but after its very pleasant
The maximum number of devices is very high (> 100), but in the real world more than 3 devices 'at same time' can consume the battery very fast and make any application relying on it fails.
apps that produce social impact, healthcare, employment, CO2 reduction, privacy, fake news.
image an app to help young people get jobs, an app to help blind people to get weather updates...
I stick with Google because all that I have is on the cloud and delivered in multiple devices, easily!
other there is no much pain in using all these in Ubuntu.
So I don't rely on others, because on the cloud, Google leads