well, i am very excited to learn about your project, i don't think i will be able to contribute anything valuable anytime soon, but i would love to test once it's released, specially since you mentioned Wayland!
there are many things that google could have done if time allowed, but the manufacturers needed something quickly to compete with Appl€. there's no other company or entity who could have made it better.
it's not fair to compare iOS and Android, it's not one device or even strictly controlled specs.
After I read the email from Google, I didn't think the impact would be huge on my small app that just started gaining users, but it was a little shock, I headed to HN to find out if other people are affected or my app was badly written. I think everyone is affected.
I will be moving my app, if anyone else likes to use a freelancer, please drop me a line: [email protected]
I think the main reason is that there is so much going on in Ubuntu, or Linux in general, with every release. I really like to run the latest stuff, but 6-month cycle is not good for development machine, the updates sometimes break the system and I can't concentrate on my work, so the development system is a Mac, I have Ubuntu on other machines.