I wonder if, when Google was trying to make a free OS so it could ensure its services were preinstalled and nagging while avoiding being totally beholden to App

I wonder if, when Google was trying to make a free OS so it could ensure its services were preinstalled and nagging while avoiding being totally beholden to Apple, it realised that the big appeal to hardware manufacturers who adopted it was that it helped them enshitten things for their users?