The system seems fundamentally broken. Why can Google not just be transparent? It could read like,<p>"Dear customer, to limit the risk of your aging battery catching fire, we are substantially degrading your usable battery capacity..."<p>But instead, they both try and frame it as an improvement to "battery stability", and then also offer an "appeasement" in the form of a BS coupon. Obviously, you don't offer an appeasement for an improvement, so just call it what it is -- a degradation.<p>Meanwhile, all these people that are installing LinenageOS, are they turning their phones into personal ticking firebombs?<p>Is there a safety issue, or not? If there is, then it should be discussed. If there's not, then wtf is all this crippling of everyone's devices about?<p>But as consumers we have very little leverage to affect change, and as a large corporation, Google apparently has little incentive to be transparent.