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"AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers for Pixel devices"
FTFY
The news is about pixel phones. Somehow this article manages to paint pixel phones as the only android devices that matter.
The "reference target" argument is kind of a joke. Other manufacturers don't publish everything for a reference device, so we can't have any real hardware one, including by Google. Sure. That was the entire appeal of Pixel devices for some people.
After battling my way through a samsung one, i can see why. Or could.