spoof your profile to something modern Samsung (S20+?) in Aurora (upper right settings, Spoof Manager), then you’ll get the rest of the Apps. Seems to me in the parallel thread a likely reason was found why FP5 behaves differently
diversify
.. away from the Playstore. Get F-Droid, in there get Obtainium - and Accrescent through the browser. All 3 do not use the Playstore.
Obtainium can update Signal continously. Accrescent would have a Signal fork too (Molly).
Imo it’s wrong for /e/OS to depend on the Playstore directly, it’s just convenient and operationally not has hard as to run an apk mirror. Cleanapk was good enough.