If this can happen, is it possible that once mandatory developer verification comes into effect, all 3rd party apps will be uninstalled at first and require a re-install?

Concerning this specific case, NFCGate is a tool on which malware (family) titled NGate by ESET is based, thus likely causing a false positive.

Oh, and no bypass is available anymore (aside from disabling play protect):

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    There are newer stingray type devices that are effective against 3G and 4G devices as well, and I think there’s one that’s coming out soon or has already been released that works on 5G to some extent but not completely. I haven’t read up on it fully lately, but there’s definitely more out there than just 2G/3G devices.

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      If you read the alleged protection dialog, Google’s only blocks against 2G networks. The same of which many carriers allow, enable, or enforce blocking, and if not *#*#info#*#* let’s you do it yourself.

      “2G network protection - Avoids 2G networks, which are less secure”

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          Most of the time they do spell things, yeah, then there are the weird legacy holdover ones. The *3001#12345#* iPhone code is an old Nokia engineering screen code that probably only had meaning to Nokia S40/S60 engineers.

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        Interesting. *#*#info#*#* didn’t do anything for me.

        Invalid mmi code

        Edit: I did however find it under settings, network,sims, and then when I selected my particular sims, it scrolled down a bit. I found that that was already disabled. It was labeled as 2G network protection.