Google engineer Dan Morris thinks that using this method is a bad idea. Through a Reddit thread, Morris essentially said that clearing the service framework data will break things.

Google engineer Dan Morrill explains why there's no point checking for Android updates more than a couple of times per day, and why you should avoid clearing the Google Services Frameworks data.

Here’s what he said about the Google Services Framework trick we all do: Doing this changes the primary ID by which Google knows your device.

Specifically, he says the following about clearing the Google Service Framework: Doing this changes the primary ID by which Google knows your device.

The cherry on top is that Coolpad even had the nefarious app impersonate the Google Play Services framework file to avoid alerting users. Palo Alto Networks' threat research team, "Unit 42 ...