I would argue they are doing what I wish any normal OEM would do: upstream their patches to make it much easier to maintain. "normal OEM Support" for phones mea

I would argue they are doing what I wish any normal OEM would do: upstream their patches to make it much easier to maintain. "normal OEM Support" for phones means you are stuck on whatever LTS kernel the OEM used, then good luck trying to upgrade past that. For reference, I am typing this on a laptop from 2008. I am not worried about OEM support because all of the hardware support was upstreamed long ago.