Now HALs are indeed properly abstracted. What does Google do with that? They actually use that, to deprecate devices FASTER than ever. How? Well, now that the

Now HALs are indeed properly abstracted. What does Google do with that? They actually use that, to deprecate devices FASTER than ever. How? Well, now that the HALs are perfectly formalized, they can say "Okay, a device launched with Android 8, used audio HAL 2.0, while Android 9-launched devices use audio HAL 3.0. We support Android for 3 upgrades, so for Android 12, we can REMOVE the whole code supporting Audio HAL 2.0". While before that, Google couldn't really know what code to remove or not, because they couldn't really know what was used. So yes, Project Treble, in current Google's implementation, Project Treble turns out to obsolete things even faster than before, and in Google's new Treblish certification plans, I see no place for Fairphones or nVidia Shield with real long-term support. So, overall, IMO, Project Treble net result is pretty close to 0 (it does have some positive aspects, not just the negatives I just said). My hope is that some company would appear to lack this gap. Because thanks to Treble, it is actually possible to make reasonable long-term support, by making the code that Google removed to bring back support.