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Most of those forks twiddle a lot of low-level knobs, and if Google does not want to support those then the forks will have a hard time anyway.

The big problem is that aaaaaalll these forks are still just a tiny tiny tiny drop in the bug mobile phone OS bucket.

If the forks want to be sustainable they need to cater to the market a bit. (Of course that's much harder said than done, but we see - for example with Nothing Tech - that there are new successful upstarts from time to time.)