at least nobody refuted the claim that it does not really make sense to go for FP Open and then install GAPPS … 
(apart from:
which you could add to the standard FP OS as well)
If you want to run Signal without Google or Google Play Store, you may take LibreSignal, which is available in the F-Droid store. But you have to load the Eutopia.cz F-Droid Experimental Repository to F-Droid.
Note that updates of LibreSignal are always very late, so don’t get nervous when it is said that LibreSignal runs out in a few days.
LibreSignal runs with “WebSocket”, therefore you don’t need GCM (“Google Cloud Messaging”), Google’s polling service.
Unfortunately, you should get nervous. The LibreSignal project is abandoned and the update before the last one should have actually already been the last one. However, as some people were surprised by the discontinuation of the app, they decided to make a last update so that those people have enough time to change to official Signal or another messenger app. But this means that the next notification
Your version of Signal is outdated.
Your version of Signal will expire in X days. Tap to update to the most recent version.
will come and then the app will finally be dead!
This has also recently been discussed here in the forum.
Read the whole story and discussion here (and probably in some other github issues …).
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Unfortunately yes, because the OS update overwrites the /system partition, so all changes you did (e.g. install gapps or xposed) are wiped as well.
True, though TWRP currently only is an advantage if the /data partition is not encrypted; otherwise the stock recovery is more useful.
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