It's just as much software engineering as it is "politics". Baseband vendors could put in as much effort as aviation manufacturers, but they won't. The status q

It's just as much software engineering as it is "politics". Baseband vendors could put in as much effort as aviation manufacturers, but they won't. The status quo of overcomplicated, insecure, buggy software is hard to change. So the only tenable approach is one that relies as little on baseband vendors cooperating.