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Then break the habit.
The problem with forgotten apps is that they don't forget you: a lot of those apps are actively gathering data on you behind your back. Also, even if they're legit, there's always the risk that an update will pull in malware some day - either because the app was compromised, or the app maker went to the dark side.
What I do is this: I keep untrustworthy apps in my work profile (untrustworthy being any Google app, Reddit, Whatsapp and any other well-known data collecting trojans). My work profile is managed by Shelter which keeps them all frozen.
Every once in a while, I go around the apps in my main profile that I've installed "in case they might be useful some day" and if I haven't used them for some time, I stick them in my work profile to be frozen and kept out of my data should they start doing something sketchy some day.
And every once in a while, I go around the apps in my work profile and purge the apps that I haven't unfrozen for a long time.
In short, I use my work profile as a stage-out area for uncommonly used apps: they spend some time there to prove their worth until they prove worthless and I remove them entirely. But as long as they're in there, they don't consume resources and they're not a liability.