Thanks for the info

Any idea on how much resourses(disk space, mem)  is saved with all these deletes? Does it seem leaner/snappier?

Do you have a twrp backup you'd be willing to share?

It's been a while, I probably cleared out ~150mb of space. I definitely got ~40mb of RAM free, though that mostly came from disabling Google Services. I'd have to do a factory reset and repeat the process to get the exact numbers, having deleted/frozen apps I never used doesn't make it 'snappier' per se but it does let me keep more apps active in the background. Kinda nice, though nowhere close to what you'd get with 1gb RAM.

For the most part the stock rom on this phone is pretty decent. How badly do you need a backup? I could upload one, but yeah I'd have to factory reset everything, not much trouble since most my APK's are backed up anyway.