Stories like this is all my family members get iPhones. If Google wants to move to a walled garden too it should at least deliver on the walled garden benefits. No point otherwise.
Apple will enshittify at some point. The only long term way to go is open source.
Indeed, unfortunately most manufacturers are against it, even the smaller/niche ones. I am waiting for more people to wake up so we get good hardware with open firmware/OSs.