The attempt to restrict installing and development of applications, Android’s development now happening closed doors and now we’re getting updates only quarterly.
The way the stock Android experienced is quite bloated (when I got this one I was annoyed how power button just put me to Google Assistant than give me the power/restart options) and just my big dislike of Big Tech like Google just has made me run custom ROMs full time and I am worried in long term Android will become non-free eventually.
Fairphone is looking to capitalize on Goole restricting AOSP support for Pixel phones. FP seems to be the way going forward.
As a side effect of Valve putting SteamOS on an VR headset with ARM mobile chipset, regular Linux on phones will likely also improve.