Most Android OEMs have early access as Google partners. Google's security team wanted to get us partner access but their business team vetoed it and has unreasonable, essentially unobtainable requirements for getting it. We need an OEM to work with us and it would help us a lot.

There is also a paradoxical strategy of giving people hope but also a reasonable-seeming action they can take to accomplish something which turns out to be futile. Those who fall for this and take said action will become disillusioned and give up hope after enough cycles of this

Nah, I think the current time changing system we have is great.