One of the problems is that the blobs are preoptimized and stripped. You can see some of the crazy hoops people are jumping through to make AOSP work here, http

One of the problems is that the blobs are preoptimized and stripped. You can see some of the crazy hoops people are jumping through to make AOSP work here, https://github.com/anestisb/android-prepare-vendor https://github.com/anestisb/android-prepare-vendor What's obvious is that google isn't building AOSP themselves at all anymore and it's suffering from neglect.