Google should be stalled as long as possible, and they should be held to account whenever the pull a hardware bait and software switch, but Google will always enshittify every thing they have influence over. They can’t not do it, maximizing the extraction money from assets is the company’s entire raison d’etre. For software and platforms to become and remain free they must be taken away from for-profit companies entirely. You cannot fix Google, because it was made broken on purpose, to take money from you and deliver it to its shareholders. It will always do that. If you give them an ounce of trust or a modicum of faith, those become assets on a balance sheet that will be monetized to your detriment because that is what companies must do to survive. If they don’t, or can’t, they will be replaced with one that can.

Fully free software and fully open hardware is the only winning strategy.