Samsung is outright evil regarding software updates and 100% using them for obsolescence. One example is when they announced Linux for DeX. They were beta testi

Samsung is outright evil regarding software updates and 100% using them for obsolescence. One example is when they announced Linux for DeX. They were beta testing it on their Galaxy Note 8s / 9s, but they made it abundantly clear that once the public beta testing was over, they would discontinue and kill the program in Galaxy Note 8/9 and then release it only alongside the new Galaxy Note 10. Eventually they killed the program altogether, likely due to poor demand. But to use the owners of the previous devices as betatesters, only to tell them they will have to uselessly buy the new device if they actually want to run the final version is just evil.