With OTA updates eventually they could FORCE you into buying a new one.

I hate the privacy nightmare cars are turning into.

People already have been brainwashed on "how many years of security updates does this smartphone model have?", and being paranoid about older-than-a-few-years devices, so you're not far off.

(Not trying to diminish the necessity of software security updates, but at the same time I could not find any Android exploits that do not involve users installing malicious apps, supply chain attacks, or state actors)

Or it's just incompetence, short sighted planning to please the shareholders