What ways are there to automate installation of a list of apps?

"adb install" can be used to install apks without rooting the phone.

fdroidcl can automate downloading apks from F-Droid.

Is there anything similar that can install a list of Play store apps / package names?

Please include a link to homepage/Play/F-Droid.

Do you use any of the mentioned virtual network interfaces? What for?

Are there any recent Android models that have native call recording enabled in EU?

I will root the phone if necessary, but considering that Google is closing the platform down even more by making custom/rooted ROMs fail security checks, I would prefer to avoid that.

How would you protect files of a VPS (Virtual Private Server) from snooping by the service provider?

Many projects ask to share lots of logs when reporting issues. It's difficult to go through all the logs and redact informarion such as usernames, environment variabled etc.

Any ideas on how to anonymize logs before sharing? Change your username to something generic?