[palata]

This is exactly what I meant. I don't want Garmin to give me access to their algorithms. I want to have a way to flash a minimal system on it if I want to play with it.

For something like Marshall smart speakers, it may end up making those products actually good: I could totally imagine an open source system for smart speakers. And that would be infinitely better than the crap Marshall put on the one I own.

It works well for routers: on many routers you can install openwrt or opnsense.