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Use different profiles. They seperate apps, data, settings, etc. I use these profiles:
I think in vanilla android you can have 3 user profiles and 1 guest. I use grapheneos which supports 15 users and 1 guest.
But you can't have a profile with MicroG, and another with google play services, because they are installed systemwide, and afaik can't be confined to a profile.
Oh right... In that case I would install just google play services and disable/uninstall it on profiles I dont need.
But you can't disable google play services on certain profiles. It's there, system wide, has access to everything, and is accessible by all apps. Actually it does so heavy modifications to the system that once installed you can't really remove it, or at least the advice for removal is always a clean install of the system, there's no official way for removal or a way that is recommended by any popular ROM
I'm on GrapheneOS now. I like the Sandboxing of Google. A compromise without feeling too compromised. The bank app runs too. Thanks for heads on GrapheneOS.