Check if yours is on the list.
What kind of issues did you have? I think it does require google play services (which can be installed easily).
I have used GOS on a pixel 6 for the past two years with no issues. The phone finally died on me last weekend, so I'm in the market for a new pixel which will be getting GOS right away.
It all seems like a security theater with the consequence that, ooops, we just vendor locked in all our customers to run a less secure OS by a company whose business it is to collect personal data and show ads that people don't want to see.
In Sweden we typically use Swish, which again works great.
"Tap to pay" things are problematic though but it's not something I personally use (even before I migrated away from stock Android).
- it’s a lie
- not even a white lie, they know perfectly well, that they can do way more
- most of the security “features” are completely useless
- they also know this
However, it’s very difficult to prove these, and laymen don’t and won’t understand the details.
By that time the amount of money that will have been made can justify and exceed whatever fine they might expect to get in court.
NFC payments are through Google pay / wallet, which is unsupported.