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Note that Microsoft basically did this for Windows 10 Mobile but then killed it. I actually recompiled a few apps for it at that time, it worked fine. I imagine getting 95% is easy, the last 4% doable, and the last 1% virtually impossible (not to mention this is a moving target)

See https://www.androidauthority.com/windows-10-mobile-android-a...

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BlackBerry also did this back in the day before it gave up on its BlackBerry 10 OS.

But the current state of most Google apps is mostly right for most of the users. They don't need to play catch up very aggresively.

Until google upgrades their apps to the new API and makes the old version impossible to find...

With catch up I mostly mean library dependencies. If Google changes the location API calls and popular apps that customers want do update, then the implementation will have to update, or the apps will crash/fail to work/etc.

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