Tomorrow is the day. APK will become the default package manager on main snapshot as of 2024-10-11:
https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2024-November/043378.html
Edit: In fact, just as I was typing the above, it hit. https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/40b8fbaa9754c86480eefc3692c9116a51a64718