That's certainly possible, but I still think they intend to make Motorola a maker of vanilla Android phones, to pressure the other OEMs to either improve or dit

That's certainly possible, but I still think they intend to make Motorola a maker of vanilla Android phones, to pressure the other OEMs to either improve or ditch their "differentiating" skins and the like, as well as to provide a reasonable baseline upgrade path. I'll admit that a part of me simply wants Google to make Motorola the company that produces true iPhone competitors, but I also don't think it unrealistic to imagine that they'll use the resource as a way to drive the rest of the ecosystem forward, while hopefully making money with great products at the same time.