@[deleted] The attitude is uncalled for. If you want to participate here, participate in a productive manner. Telling others to "do a little bit of thinking' in this passive aggressive manner isn't wanted.
If you can't do that and want to stay away from the community instead, that's also fine, but we can't tolerate this kind of behavior.
PaulDavis There isn't a great way to tell, unfortunately. For better or for worse (mostly for worse, really) most apps assume that you're running on an OS that runs the standard privileged Google Play Services that you find in virtually every Android device. Absent of Play Services isn't always handled gracefully as a result. Some apps might crash, some apps might complain but work despite that, others might be silent about it and have critical or auxiliary app functionality just silently not function - it all depends on whether the app devs have thought about this scenario and how they're handling it.
There's also no surefire way to tell, really. Personally, because I do a lot of testing to help folks out here, I have two "Lab" profiles, one without sandboxed Google Play, and one with sandboxed Google Play. That way, I can test how apps behave in both environments as needed as part of troubleshooting. Clunky and trial and error for sure, but that's the best way to know.