[E 2015 Original Android Development] :
Yes I do keep posting about open gapps because some (but not all) of the issues you guys have been reporting can be linked to the open gapps issue.....

But

I've always said and I'll say again, if you are using open gapps and you are not facing the issues described, why change?

I made a big deal of it because I was following the moto e 1st gen cm13 thread and people were getting told they must not use open gapps because their device would melt, their house would blow up and their goldfish would grow six eyes.

Seriously, there was a really big deal made about going against squids instructions on that thread, there was reports of squid not supporting any issues with anyone flashing software that he had advised against using but I can now see a few chose to just scaremonger us to change our gapps packages.

Squid did say the issue was going to be resolved with the next open gapps update....lo and behold half a dozen people started saying quite innocently and correctly that open gapps was now fixed, I was just airing a little caution as I felt if squid felt this problem serious enough to advise against open gapps usage, he would test the new update and advise us as to continued use!

I've never told anyone to stop using open gapps, I've just repeated what I've read in other threads that squid develops for, like the moto e 1st gen and moto x.

Remember to that squid himself is not an open gapps user, he can only act if we report any problems, that is how he found out about the latest issue!

If you find open gapps works for you, its great, its your choice, we are here to test these things and people cannot find out if there are more issues unless we test these new updates.

I suspect some of the gapps issues may be a location problem, as someone has just suggested.

Open gapps doesn't work for me on my 1st or 2nd gen moto e's in the UK, but the A gapps minimal package works great.......

I tried banks gapps and that didn't work.

Open gapps works great for me running cm12.1(5.1 package on the first gen moto e) but not CM13(6.0 package on my 2nd gen moto e)

Flashed CM13 by squid on the 1st gen moto e with open gapps pico and didn't get past the "checking for update" screen, it then rebooted constantly.

As I'm not now an open gapps user on either moto e's, I personally am not seeing any of the issues I'm seeing posted here, but saying that, if I recommend someone to use the A gapps Google minimal package I use, someone then tries it and it fails for them, I'm going to be lambasted and accused of giving false information, can you see my problem?

All I can do is share my personal experiences with you guys, whether you decide to change gapps package or your personal flashing habits from reading my comments is your own personal choice and I hope anyone will not assume I'm trying to either discredit open gapps use or discourage anyone from testing the newer builds!

I also keep saying that a clean flash of each nightly is working for me.

If you guys choose to ignore what I'm saying, its cool and again, I'm not trying to encourage anyone to change the way you either dirty flash or clean flash each nightly.

I'm sharing with you what works best for me and I hope someone might read what I've said think "yes that was a good suggestion, thanks for that"

That is what we are all here for, to share, test and comment on our findings, such a pity that something that works great for me or him, may be a total disaster for him over there!