The above is a Reddit post screenshotting a cut discussion about what we received from a journalist. It even says we don't really believe it, but Google claims they won't get rid of AOSP. Last messages are what we think would happen if Android is to be forcibly split away from Google due to their legal cases.

AOSP for Pixels, however, is gone. They say they want to encourage people to move towards their virtual / emulator environment. Still, this is a blow for OS development or for having a target device to build on.

Google has made it harder to build for Pixel phones by omitting their device trees and driver binaries from the latest AOSP releases. We have had to do a tough reverse engineering effort to even get porting.

GrapheneOS will continue work on existing devices, even if there's shortcomings. We'd have to focus more work on keeping a stable port than adding great things.

A better article would be:

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/