It is, and it looks like the bad press got to Google and it will soon be fixed on Play Store.
I’d generally recommend getting things from F-Droid where possible anyway, but that could be a tech support headache for a larger institution using Nextcloud and requiring people to install the client.
Looks like the nextcloud one is also on fdroid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nextcloud.client/
It is, and it looks like the bad press got to Google and it will soon be fixed on Play Store.
I’d generally recommend getting things from F-Droid where possible anyway, but that could be a tech support headache for a larger institution using Nextcloud and requiring people to install the client.