I've been pondering this, as I am not really a fan of Briar having custom tor. But, I can sort of see why, especially now that HS and doze is so much trouble. But we are talking client access here, not HS.
Overall, I think that the number of apps which should be able to use tor should over time approach the total number of apps. So bundling tor in each and running a separate instance seems at least suboptimal and borders on unworkable. So, I lean to using NetCipher, and perhaps if orbot is not present show the user a link to a page explaining it, and if it is present the tor config. I also wonder if f-droid could grow a soft dependency feature, where installing an app could cause f-droid to offer to install a set of dependency apps. I really mean soft, in that one could say no, and obviously apps have to behave reasonably with the dependency app missing, but it could ease the UX. Actually, proprietary app stores could do this also. (I realize that this approach probably doesn't work on iOS, but I don't think decisions for android should give much weight to the walled garden rules on iOS.)
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