I'm going off of my personal take only, so it's pretty safe to assume I'm wrong, but the effort seemed so half-hearted that I assumed Google was pushing other m

I'm going off of my personal take only, so it's pretty safe to assume I'm wrong, but the effort seemed so half-hearted that I assumed Google was pushing other makers to stop installing bloatware and get on top of Android updates by providing JUST ENOUGH competition to force them to take it up. Until then the major players were all bad about those and profited from it so there was no incentive for them to change their ways and consumers had no real way to talk with their wallets on the topics. Not that todays' options are GOOD on those points, but they've definitely improved, at least with Android version updates.