If you really care about abusing the free trial you can spin up a new account on a new email, along with a virtual credit card with a service like Privacy.com then cancel the card before the transaction can be made.
That's the reason this write up doesn't make any sense because they did do that, the old logo was just the YouTube logo with a gradient and a line, the new logo is much closer to NewPipe's and they dropped the YouTube from "YouTube Vanced"
Speedometer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digitalspe...
Material Status Bar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treydev.ms...
Both of which have and I know this sounds insane, contain a $16 a week subscription fee.