> so for some hardware it might mean that when it gets released you only have noticeable less then 6 years of kernel support Or they could just upgrade the ker

> so for some hardware it might mean that when it gets released you only have noticeable less then 6 years of kernel support Or they could just upgrade the kernel to a newer version. There's no rule that says that the phone needs to run the same major kernel version for its entire lifetime. The issue is that if you buy a sub €100 phone, how exactly is the manufacturer supposes to finance the development and testing of never versions of the operating system? It might be cheap enough to just apply security fixes to an LTS kernel, but moving and re-validating drivers for hardware that may not even be manufactured quickly becomes unjustifiable expensive for anything but flagship phones.