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How about all these smartphones being sold with unsupported broken versions of Android?

Mostly not remotely exploitable or not easily, so they can probably get away fine. There's no giant Android botnet eating the internet.

That still doesn't excuse it at the least. Forcing manufactures to support security updates on these devices for a reasonable amount of time (no less than 6 years) would greatly slow planned obsolescence and may even force manufactures to actually agree on driver and kernel standards instead of their mess of non-upstreamable garbage patches.

Right now we're lucky to get even 2 years of normal updates (much less security updates) on any Android device.

Are the any big vulnerabilities you're thinking of?

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