What if France does not invade Algiers in 1830 or at least does a limited incursion and then withdraws? I suspect that this would be much better for the Algerian people, who are going to avoid getting outright annexed by France in this TL. Instead, Algeria's fate in this TL might resemble that of Tunisia and Morocco, with a later but more humane French colonization and an easier French departure later on due to it not officially being a part of France and thus having a smaller pied-noir settler population than it had in real life. That would be wonderful news since this would mean that there would be no hundreds of thousands of Algerians as well as tens of thousands of Frenchmen who would be killed in Algeria's War of Independence, since this war wouldn't occur in this TL and, again, Algeria would eventually get its independence without too much difficulty just like Tunisia and Morocco both did. So, you'd see the positives of French rule, such as greater development, industrialization, et cetera, without as much of the downsides, such as quite the severe level of oppression that existed against Algerian Muslims in French Algeria in real life. You could, of course, also see much more of the pre-colonial Algerian elite survive in this TL as opposed to going into exile. Tunisia's and Morocco's pre-colonial elite survived colonial rule, but AFAIK, Algeria had to build a new elite after colonialism in real life because their old elite went into exile--or, alternatively, got killed fighting French colonialists.
Anyway, what additional effects would this have?
Anyway, what additional effects would this have?