About the notification listener permission

It's required to get notification listener permission in order to be able to query the active media sessions and interact with them.

That is a major pain for various reasons, such as:

1. Users being rightfully scared by granting such a powerful permission
2. Play Protect flagging roughly 100% of non-Play-distributed apps with that permission as malware once a certain install threshold is reached, forcing you to appeal
3. Having granted notification listener permission forces the app to stay running in background 24/7 (can be observed in Developer options > Running services), which is convenient for some use cases (such as scrobbler app) but also totally wasteful use of RAM for others

Could it be considered to create a new permission, purely for media session access, as seperate, less sensitive permission? I think notification listener permission should keep it's rights for accessing media session, but there should be a second way which is easier to sell to the user.

I'm aware this is not actionable immediately because it will require internal discussion & prioritization and even if that leads to a favourable outcome, a new platform version will still need to be released. I'm offering this purely as async feedback so you know of this pain point. Thanks for considering!