I've already configured Renovate to automatically keep the dependencies up to date so I don't need the lint to be failing builds because of outdated dependencies.
This will hopefully enable me to use the gradle build health plugin, and still be compliant with F-Droid's policies. A consequence of this is that I had to go back to ACRA for error reporting, since I couldn't find a way to keep Firebase's gradle plugins on a library module instead of the main app module