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So the best thing that android does -- allowing choice -- is your issue with them? What you're asking for here is the apple business model. Absolute control. No thanks.
If your issue is you can't figure out which android phone is good, that's a you problem. Online reviews exist. Not that hard to research a phone ...
You just referred to freedom as something that should be forced lol
Yeah, again you're advocating for Google to be more like apple. The fact that shitty phones are allowed to exist is definitely a positive thing. Because that allows choice. Just do your research and don't buy that shitty one to begin with. Unless it's all you can afford, in which case, it probably costs less than a third of the cheapest iPhone.
I think people can handle the idea that a phone is not its operating system. It's pretty obvious a $30 product is not equivalent to a $900 product. People have understood that since currency was invented
In what world would this be a good idea? I much prefer OneUI over AOSP for example. Option to easily opt-in for unlocking bootloader and flash stock ROM would be a good thing though.
Why exactly you should be able to do it? Because of an ideology that you hold? It does not make any sense business wise for Samsung to develop ROM that could be smoothly run on random phones, it is their IP which is their revenue.
Google itself does not provide all of the Pixel-only features because that's their own thing, they want to sell it not just hand it out.
We in theory already have a mechanism for showing dissatisfaction - Do not like something, do not buy it.
Currently the best options if you want to have a phone with newest OS for a long time: