On my Android phone's home screen I have 23 apps, 11 of them are my own. If Android prevents me from installing my own apps I will switch to something else.

Unless you move to a linux phone (good luck finding one or daily driving it) your phone options are iPhone.

iOS restricts you to install only up to 3 personally signed apps which need to be resigned every 7 days only if you're in the same network of the computer that signs them. Or you live in europe and you can jump through much worse hoops to install AltStores which also break as soon as you travel outside of europe.

I daily drive Librem 5, and it's been fine.

Tell us more about your 11 apps!

- calendar

- spending tracking app

- notepad

- RSS reader just for my YouTube subscriptions

- dumbed down browser that can only show YouTube video and nothing else (no suggestions, no comments)

- space sim game

- RC boat remote control

- micro photo led ring Bluetooth control app

- magnetometer control app

- RSS reader for news

- browser