That article is nonsense. Google is doing what they can to clean up the code base and separate concerns. Clearly many vendors have a technical problem merging

That article is nonsense. Google is doing what they can to clean up the code base and separate concerns. Clearly many vendors have a technical problem merging their own changes with updated versions, and we've seen time and time again that vendors make promises -- they have the will -- that they don't live up to because they don't have the means.