Animats is pointing out that Google has interfered with many apps from running in the background for performance reasons. But Google always special-cases their own apps and gives them extreme privileges on your device, because Google can do no wrong.

It's still a stupid take even after you restated it. The system has background processes. If it did not, nothing would work.

Android (unlike IOS?) seems to have launch-on-push capabilities.[1] That's how updating presumably should be handled. The updater doesn't need to be alive in background when idle.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50368716/how-to-automati...