They're slowly tightening the screws on alternative Android builds as well. Most recently they removed distribution of factory builds for Pixels, which are used for figuring out drivers and such.
They're also literally just not pushing code to AOSP anymore. QPR1 still isn't available. It probably will be, eventually, but this year it's two months late, next year it's six months late, then nine months, then "eventually" and then finally only to OEMs.
I don't think Google looks at any of these forks as threats; they just don't care.
because everyone here didn't care when bigtech was killing gpl. heck, most people here will still defend mit/bsd while crying that google is taking their linux device to themselves.
