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Why a whole new mobile OS? Linux is the least important part of Android. It could be replaced. Probably will be, by Fuschia.

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I'm not an expert here, but I this is pretty unlikely at this point.

Google has been working on Fuschia for a decade, and far as I can tell, the only place it was ever deployed was to a Google smart home hub 5 years ago. The only Fuschia news I've heard since then was about layoffs and killing projects related to it (e.g. Chrome on Fuschia).

If Google isn't moving any of their own phones over to Fuschia after a decade of work, it's hard to imagine them unilaterally flipping Android to it and forcing the hand of every Android OEM to follow suit.

Simplicity. Also maybe use Go for apps instead of Java.

The idea is it would be nice to have an OS that is a little easier to learn for the next generation of devs.

Simplicity how? It would require a great deal of complex work.

Simplicity in the sense that BSD is a much smaller codebase than linux and therefore less complex and easier to onboard new devs.

It wouldn't be a smaller codebase if you built an Android-like mobile OS on top of it.

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