My freshly-reinstalled Pixel 2 XL with a minimal app load has four goddamn gigabytes of RAM and can't even manage to run my podcast player in the background wit

My freshly-reinstalled Pixel 2 XL with a minimal app load has four goddamn gigabytes of RAM and can't even manage to run my podcast player in the background without killing it after 5-30 minutes to economize on resources, despite my having turned off every optimization function on the device. That's why. The software is garbage, and it necessitates an upgrade treadmill to keep pace. It's PCs in the 90s all over again!