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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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As far as I understand it, it has been created to port the official client over to a newer target SDK and to ship those changes quicker to the end-user before all features of the main client have been ported to the newer target SDK. One of the reasons stated was having an official F-Droid client as quickly as possible that installs without a warning message.
It seems to be unclear if F-Droid Basic as an F-Droid client with a reduced feature set will continue to exist after the main client has been modernised.
Last time I looked only Neo Store supported automatic unattended app updates. As soon as F-Droid Basic came out, I switched to it from Neo Store. I didn't really like Neo Store's UI and in general I prefer official apps from projects rather than third-party apps.
I only use the F-Droid repo, so that's not a selling point for me. ;)
I know droid-ify will install updates without the prompt once you tap install, but you may be right as i dont recall if it will actually do the download itself or if it makes the user do it.