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Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens
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There kind of is, software changes and things need to be updated by comparison, your windows example is a double edged sword, there's a lot of bloat and Microsoft can't make changes that might be beneficial on windows because of all the backwards compatability layers and services they generally leave in. It's good and bad in it's own way.