The most recent releases of opengapps have problems like you are reporting. As a PSA for anyone else looking, use an older build (the 17th?) or mindthegapps.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/pa-gapps-continuation-t3098071/page648
Personally, I've been having a lot of issues somewhat recently with opengapps causing a failure to boot on several devices.
It works with mindthegap. Now I can run this with Google Services! While microg is great and I got most of the things running, some things didn't work quite well. My banking Apps, App from provider and not to the last, I use Tasker and AutoTools excessively, but I couldn't pay the subscription on the playstore. And I really like Tasker so..
Thank you kind stranger!