I think ChromeOS is much closer to desktop Linux than Android is. Among other things, I have seen more contributions overall from ChromeOS guys than from Android guys, despite the huge differences in user numbers.
Wasn’t pretty much every battery-preserving feature made by android kernel devs? Android is just no longer in its early days to need bit kernel changes.
I absolutely disagree. The early Android was using a very simplistic approach to powersaving that was not only not a good fit compared to what desktop Linux was using, but also disagreed with the previous work that had been done for Linux from other vendors (e.g. TI).
Android did not start the craze of Linux on devices, they just surfed on it...
At least ChromeOS devices (nearly?) universally support being unlocked to allow the owner root access and to flash whatever they want; I would love for Android to have the same "developer mode". Not that I really disagree with you.
https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis
And even if you try to be clever,
"Improving Stability with Private C/C++ Symbol Restrictions in Android N"
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/improving-...
"Namespaces for Native Libraries"
https://source.android.com/docs/core/permissions/namespaces_...