Nothing of that has to do with OEMs being forbidden from shipping QPRs though.
Are reading the same post?
“ The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. […] Non-Google Android OEMs and AOSP-based projects can ship yearly and QPR2 releases.”
the person running it has a penchant for overexaggeration and selective truth telling when they feel aggrieved.
Here we go again…
Well, Graphene's statement isn't true so not sure what do you want me to tell you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe their own source at OEMs lied to them? The QPRs are in the same repo they're getting their security patches from.