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Well, fuck Google.
Android isn't at fault here. Get a non-Google version of Android and a phone runs faster, with significantly less battery consumption.
Google services really screw the pooch, as they say. Lineage/DivestOS and Graphene are lightning fast on my 2018 flagship. I get a day out of it now, (with it's old battery) , when it was new I got half a day...at best. Google Services consume upward of 8% per hour, depending on installed apps.
That's a good point, unfortunately.
It's all a result of Android being a monolithic OS. I'd bet when Google bought Android (around 2000, it was still fresh), this was a "kkown issue" and Google decided they just needed to get it out there, rather than develop a standard hardware interface layer.
I'm sure they also considered the advantage to them (and vendors) in being able to force dependence on those drivers.
This feels like cybersecurity cosplay
you want a kilswitch on a camera you go for a slideable plastic covering, like most laptops have, because you can't hack "being able to look through solid objects" into a phone camera
why would this just be an electronic disconnect. Love to bee concerned enough about privacy to not trust google, but I do trust random kickstarter that they wire their phones up properly and also that it gets to me with no intervention