This is the best summary I could come up with:

The other big problem is the burnout from maintainers, which are often unpaid and could use a lot more support from the billion-dollar companies that benefit from using Linux.

The problem was that on PCs, two years only represents the time between kernel updates, so that’s a fine timeline.

Embedded devices tend not to update the kernel, though, so those “two years” represent most of the development cycle and the entire consumer support window, and that’s not long enough.

The original picture Google painted in 2017 was that phones take two years to be developed and that the kernel is locked in near the beginning of the engineering process.

That’s going to start a new window of support, remember, so even with a paltry two years of ownership, that’s a six-year-old kernel.

Rumor has it that the Pixel 8 will have a longer support window, so maybe we’ll see major kernel updates launch with that phone.

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