The problem is Google will probably do it again once the press has moved on. Nextcloud directly competes with a bunch of Google's own offerings and clearly its very popular given the amount of users of the app. They will restrict this again in the future.
I moved to F droid and now my app works as its meant to and I don't see much reason to move back to Play store updates.
I moved to F droid and now my app works as its meant to and I don't see much reason to move back to Play store updates.