I think installing the apps via Aurora Store and running them should definitely work. There might be issues with syncing them to your Google account though. You can add the account via MicroG (preinstalled) but since I have no experience with running GApps on /e/os I can’t attest to how well this will work, if at all.

You can install Lineage OS and add GApps though, if you’re looking for a custom ROM but need extensive support for Google apps.

Might I ask what’s your incentive to switch to /e/os? Installing Google apps kind of counteracts the privacy aspect.

I’m currently using /e/os as there are no official custom Roms for my phone and they offer a GSI version (works on a wide variety of devices). For me it runs flawlessly, but I don’t use any apps dependent on Google Play Services, so YMMV.

I think their default apps are very usable and having MicroG on board for location services is pretty handy. Their contacts/calendar/note syncing via Murena also make the user experience quite seemless.

I’d recommend it.

Edit: If you have any questions about the OS, feel free to ask away

Sure, he just wanted to save his skin (Which is not cowardly either, in my opinion).

However, the OP said “the cowardice of a draft dodger” which reads like a generalized statement. Also all other listed groups are reprehensible, putting draft dodgers in there is just weird.

Edit: I’m cool with bar stool drunks as long as they don’t spew evil bullshit, to be clear

Yeah, that part didn’t sit well with me either. How does refusing to throw away your life for a nation state’s interest and to being instrumentalized to harm and kill others constitute cowardice?

Starting a war when you yourself dodged the draft is definitely evidence of hypocrisy, moral bankruptcy and just pathetic.

But people refusing to be pawns in some belligerent leaders wargame is far from cowardice.