The comparison isn't fair you as a user of RH, expend an effort to upgrade and the benefits are often not clear so you don't

RH as a vendor has to backport because their users demand a long supported and modern-ish kernel

Google spend time and effort to backport and this story is discussing the benefits vs putting that effort in upgrading.

Your analogy isn't fair, thou obviously android's customers here are the device makers and they are tilting the balance towards backport