[DominikR]

The only thing that matters is who pays when someone bricks his device with that software.

And those users are surely not expecting that they are going to pay themselves, since they installed the software from the official Google Play store.

What CM does (doesn't matter if intentionally or not) is externalizing the cost for support to Google and the device manufacturers, since they themselves are not willing to replace or repair devices that have been bricked by their own software.