I tried to downvote your comment for making unsubstantiated claims like "The (vast) majority of people don't engage with these tools". But was unable to because I don't have enough karma. Do with that what you please.
It's possible, if that image has a startup script to fetch the .apk from a third party source & install it. I've put custom/specialty ROMs on old Android devices in the past and they often come with random apps I don't need and uninstall on first boot.