That’s not at all what my comment meant.

It’s done for legitimate purposes, for example knowing which apps to launch for a given ‘Intent’ or checking for the existence of Google Chrome to attempt to launch a Chrome Custom Tab.

It’s normal functionality for mobile apps.

Now, if they are scanning visible installed packages and sending that data to their own servers for storage, that would be a story, but there’s no evidence that that is occurring.

By the way, love your username.