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I think that the bigger concern is mentioned here: > That means two app stores, two browsers, two voice assistants, two text messaging apps, two keyboard apps,

I think that the bigger concern is mentioned here: > That means two app stores, two browsers, two voice assistants, two text messaging apps, two keyboard apps, and on and on. These all get added to the system partition and often aren't removable. Samsung is free to install software that they want on the phone, but they should make them removable. Having two versions of everything has implications for performance, security, and other non-functional requirements.

Mindwipe 4y ago
Not really - the system partition is ROM, and they can be disabled. They just survive a factory reset, and putting apps that are supposed to survive factory reset in the system partition is what the Android developer documentation explicitly states you should do. But if they're disabled they do not run, and can't run, so the implications for performance and security are zero. The only conceivable impact is that some storage is used up, but as seen in the other comments we are talking dozens of megabytes here, and the article is completely wrong about the partition size.