It's not the only reasonable path, of course. There are heavily de-Googled versions of Android out there as well. In this case I'm voting with my dollars and p

It's not the only reasonable path, of course. There are heavily de-Googled versions of Android out there as well. In this case I'm voting with my dollars and paying a premium for a device made by a company that is, at least overtly, pushing for a bare minimum level of support for their customers. It certainly doesn't hurt that they're nice phones too, though.