Why is the PPP still $400 and no stable OS?

[KC9UDX]

I haven't had one yet that didn't have multiple third party apps baked in. And there are always these benign-named ones like "Device Configuration", "System", etc that run once in a while, use and keep data, but don't seem to matter in any way if you delete them. But the ones that bother me are the super-furtive manufacturer update, provider update, and android update apps which run most of the time. The ones you can't remove at all, but you can kill them whenever and it doesn't matter (it shouldn't). But they are super chatty and connect to all kinds of crazy places all the time. They use significant system resources and frequently bring the UI to a halt. And GBoard which is there even if you delete it. Even though there's a manufacturer-branded keyboard that's also unremovable.

The thing I found out you really shouldn't delete is the Google TTS stuff. It's very hard to get a properly working TTS system without that.