I still have a Gingerbread era android phone. It works just fine. It's one of the few phones I own I was actually able to successfully root. It's still full of a bunch of stuff, the currently installed apps work fine.

But now, google has decided for me, I shall no longer ever be able to factory reset this phone or even remove my google account from it, for my own good.

I'm really getting sick and tired of this catchall phrase 'security' being used as an excuse for consumer hostile practices and tactics.

It's bullshit, the people at google marketing know it's bullshit, the engineers know it's bullshit. It's bullshit.