Welcome to the land of Google, they have a million other things they could be doing better.

Indeed. The idea that Android is customizable is not true, at least not without an unlocked bootloader and root access. Sure, more customizable than iOS (the only reference we have to compare it with), but still not that much.

For example, in 2014, how come Google forcibly disabled normal MicroSD write access on Android 4.4? It would have made more sense to give the device owner the choice. A simple menu option is all it would have taken.

If I can think of this, so can a gigacorporation. This means they, for whichever reason, chose not to do it.

Whichever problem that solved, it created a far bigger problem: disabling one of Android smartphones' major selling points compared to iPhones.

The same happened with mandatory pull-to-refresh since Chrome version 75. They took away the ability to turn it off, following by refusing to reinstate it after many, many complaints about accidental refreshes. They have not brought it back to this day.

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