Great. So now nobody gets bugfixes until after the main vendors get priority access to it. for six months.

There's no way this isn't intentional hostility towards forks.

At this rate, given a few more years Google will announce that they're moving to a "once a century" release model for AOSP.

This is them trying to strangle Graphene and LineageOs. We desperately need an ecosystem where manufacturers are legally compelled to publish the source code for their drivers and similar so as to make it easier for alternative Oses to exist.

Android will soon become fully closed source. The writing is on the wall.