They did that, and I'm not sure they could have gone much further in the way of restricting OEMs, considering they were told to knock that shit off by the EU [0

They did that, and I'm not sure they could have gone much further in the way of restricting OEMs, considering they were told to knock that shit off by the EU [0]. Few people that I recall so much as batted an eye - even XDA in the earlier days was stuffed full of people wondering how long until Google came down harder on OEMs for better update support, and many people were in favour of Google using Google Play Services as a stick. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/google-will-stop-bundling-its-apps-on-android-phones-in-response-to-eu-fine.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/google-will-stop-bundling-it...