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> Also please explain how Google created a "huge and damaging rift"? What damage resulted from this at all?

Hardware becoming Android only. See https://lwn.net/Articles/504865/

A major part of that problem is that rift that created incompatibility and prevented reusing of the existing progress. That was the whole reason for making libhybris, to unblock that issue.

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That article is long outdated. Mainline and Android kernels have mostly converged at this point.

But that's also wholly unrelated to the specific context here which was Wayland vs. SurfaceFlinger.

Wayland was your "huge damaging rift" here if anything. Divorcing itself from both xorg and surface flinger, for no particular reason at the time in the case of the later.

The article doesn't focus on drivers, but idea is the same. Android did create the rift, and it's still here. It's new "Windows" in hardware compatibility sense.

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