New Android phone, advice on installing from scratch

[SexyGreyFox]

I had quite a nasty accident with my Moto G6 Plus yesterday involving at least 10 cars on a roundabout and this is the result

Spoiler: Poorly G6 Plus

Anyway, since I loved the phone so much I'm just about to pick up the Moto G8 Plus but I don't want to connect to Google and 1000 APPs installing on my phone (I've tried a lot over the years).
How do I stop this from happening so I only install what I want?

Thanks

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Thanks, got the phone now.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Blimey this has never happened before.
I decided to let it do it's thing and it is putting my APPs in exactly the same place on my screen.