Fully understand the issues with this approach: my skepticism has been expressed in former HN comments. However, the issue is that in practice it already seems

Fully understand the issues with this approach: my skepticism has been expressed in former HN comments. However, the issue is that in practice it already seems like this approach has yielded something closer to daily-driver maturity, which would make it a suitable platform for experimenting with software. It may be necessary since it's hard to justify actually doing all of the effort to build the phones with not much impressive to run on them.