I use Obtainium (available in F-Droid) alongside F-Droid since both have auto-updates
this is still tolerable to the old days of updating manually

biggest upside is I can update Tubular/Newpipe faster via Obtainium while F-Droids build system takes days

you might be interested in pinchflat or tubearchivest which are made for this task

thats a big hit for non-commercial laser cutting enthusiasts
Between Visicut and Lightburn, the later was miles away even with its quirks and testing all sorts of stuff with boxes.py was a lot of fun

bummer