Yeah, I see both parts of this.
BOOX advertises “Super Refresh” which makes eink almost able to play a YouTube video. There’s a lot of software (and probably hardware) development there.
Google still issues security patches for Android 12 as well.
It could be much worse. At least BOOX issues updates….
Valve is one of the few companies that I would believe could actually be doing this for the betterment of everyone and not to just Microsoft a competitor to death.