> I want stock Android and stock should be easier to update. That's not actually true, unfortunately. The BSPs are where the majority of the work is, and zero

> I want stock Android and stock should be easier to update. That's not actually true, unfortunately. The BSPs are where the majority of the work is, and zero percent of that work is different between "Stock Android" and "Weird OEM Customized" Android. If you look at what it takes to get "Product X" from an existing Android version, to a new Android version, very little of that time is updating the crapware everyone hates, and the vast majority of that time is updating the BSP + drivers needed to get any Android working properly at all. For instance, if you build a product, you might buy a board from a random OEM, and that board might be built around a Qualcomm SOC on it. If Qualcomm doesn't support "the next android" for that particular chipset, your basically stuck unless you re-invent all of the Qualcomm-specific drivers and tools yourself. Since Qualcomm isn't supporting it, the OEM you bought your board from isn't either, and the product itself gets stuck on old Android. ocdtrekkie is getting downvoted for this, but he's mostly right. Google could easily solved this problem years ago by letting Android devices reuse existing BSPs, and it looks like they are finally doing exactly that.