[kramerger]

To be fair, Moto got sold to Lenovo and overnight went from poster child to black ship of the Android family.

Also note that your issue is not with Android, it's with moto.

[toddrossdiy]

That's fair, but when I buy a laptop made by Lenovo or Dell or whatever, that doesn't prevent me from upgrading Windows to a new version, so why is that the case with Android? (I know the real answer to this, but really, how is this still a problem?) If I bought a google pixel phone, would they support it with new versions for 5+ years? Just sucks that no android phone manufacturers have any incentive to try and keep a phone up to date for more than a year or two any more.

[herbst]

Like the majority of people here name issues about Android that are more or less exclusive to Samsung and other, mostly dying, brands.

Pixel, Huawai in the past, Xiaomi all allow to use stock android and remove any apps.