Regarding Google forcing phone creators to push updates and such: By far not only Pixel users get regular updates, but also other Android One phones, such as my Nokia 7 Plus, as I am sitting here with Android 9 already (which I don't really like btw). A better approach in my eyes would be to only have Android One phones, without critical changes to the OS. Changes for other companies should be limited to additional apps and maybe reskins to the interface.<br>That would mean that samsung could still preinstall all their useless gunk via apps, but updates come from google directly.