This is one reason I'm very excited by Fuchsia - it should enable far longer usable lifetimes for devices with the kernel and drivers being updatable separately

This is one reason I'm very excited by Fuchsia - it should enable far longer usable lifetimes for devices with the kernel and drivers being updatable separately. If ChromeOS moved to Fuchsia I don't think we'd see stuck stale installs like this very much.