Hard to believe that this is considered "novel" I thought everyone knew this was fair game. It is so obvious. PinePhone and Pureism/Librem have hardware enabled switching for this reason.
What exactly is obvious?
Sure, the data that they collect is mostly avaible to agencies like FBA.
But the argument is about using microphone, and despite Android being fairly open platform, where you can controll every single aspect of the device all the way down to assembly, I have yet to seen the smoking gun that objectively proves that googlePlayServices, or whatever, listens to you 24/7 and transmits all that to the servers.