I have a Samsung tablet which I bought years ago. It’s was full of unremovable useless software and after a maybe 4 year of updates it was unusable because each version just took more and more space to the point that eventually it would fit maybe 2 or 3 applications on top of what came with it and nothing more.

To give it new life I had to install a non-official version of LineageOS compile by some random guy which has problems and will even crash once in a while, and even then it’s better than using the original Samsung version of Android in it.

More recent Samsung tablets and phones can’t even be bootloader unlocked to install an alternative to the Android they ship.

I’m not interest in from companies whose products are are activelly managed to force customers to buy replacements for perfectly good hardware.