Exactly. And why the phones are sold with preinstalled with all the Google software and services and it is difficult to remove them if not via adb cli ?
If they are the best in the World as someone else has stated, the people will flock to install them on a "vanilla" phone, right ?
All your SMS, contacts, emails, location positions, photos ... One time my mother was at a funeral at a cemetry, nearby is a cafè. 20 minutes later she got a notification from Google : "How was your experience at the cafè ?" What have this to do with their own products, their free tier levels, the freedom to not watch Youtube or use Gmail ?