Alternatives to ScriptApp scope usage in GMail Add-on

I'm trying to publish a GMail Add-on with a scheduler functionality and using the Google Apps Script's built in trigger functions to achieve the goal. However when I try to deploy the add-on I get the below error message.

Gmail add-ons may not request the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/script.scriptapp scope.


Is this the intended behaviour? Are there any workarounds to achieve the same without using trigger?

Without the scheduler the add-on would be pretty much useless...

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