I've got about 80% of my apps that would normally be on F-Droid installed through Obtainium ( https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium ), which handles Git releases (among other sources). The F-Droid client feels clunky and in the past I had some update errors that were annoying. With some improvements it should return to being a good discovery tool and app manager, so this is good news.
This is interesting! I like the curated apps idea because it means I can search for more apps compared to fdroid.