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I'm not sure this can be done more easily without root access as many Android services and Gapps are intertwined.
You can try this solution via ADB, this is just an example
pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.app
As for SMS app, I use QKSMS
I just saw this, it's available on f-droid and play store
https://github.com/deku-messaging/Deku-SMS-Android