Replicant

I feel terrible asking this question as it's essentially blasphemy and goes even against my own ideals, but I'm going to ask it anyway, hopefully there won't be too much kickback.

Is there any way to use the proprietary software for the GPU? I understand that presently graphics rendering is done through software rendering and there is potentially the Lima driver in the distant future for new releases but in the meantime CPU rendering is just painfully slow.

Additionally, Is there an officially recommended way to remove default apps, mail, browser etc.