What exactly is the "this" you are referring to? This article is pretty much an official acknowledgment that a problem exists and needs an investment of develop

What exactly is the "this" you are referring to? This article is pretty much an official acknowledgment that a problem exists and needs an investment of developer resources. The situation won't get better until/unless stakeholders make an investment of resources. Clearly someone is going to have to pay for a lot of hours of time spent by developers who are competent to work on arm arch stuff in a "global" way. I'm not too familiar with the details of the various multi-stakeholder alliances and how they get their funding and decide who to hire to do what, but it sounds like the Linux Foundation (or whoever) needs to support a few more developers with a job description more focused on the kernel itself rather than just relying on the companies contributing what they did to get specific devices ready for shipping.