It’s easily possible to provide updates and keep it open source. Google did that in the past just fine with many AOSP apps, and even the android webbrowser part

It’s easily possible to provide updates and keep it open source. Google did that in the past just fine with many AOSP apps, and even the android webbrowser parts are updated that way, and still open source. Google just used it as an excuse to make these parts of the OS proprietary.