Why is custom ROM scene split into creating so many variations of the same thing?

tl;dr: there's a lot of ROMs built on the same version of Android with the same set of features, why?

Android has many flavors, as pretty much every producent having its own. Yet most of the scene is focused on creating AOSP builds. For my current Redmi Note 7 there is a dozen, with very little differences like few extra customization options, reordered settings for those and a different kernel. Bigger, more known ROMs are focused around certain ideas, like LineageOS oriented on Google-less, privacy oriented OS or Pixel Experience providing the OS as close to the one found on Google phones. But apart from those there is a long list of ROMs which barely have any extra features in a cost of often much lower stability and outdated sources. Furthermore, just a few of them is supported for more than a few weeks. I'm not trying to gatekeep people from inventing new builds, as I found myself enjoying similar tasks, but I feel like a bigger part of the community could focus on a definitive version, on top of which people could create their very own OS using sources that are verified to be working instead of creating yet another ROM that will die in days

Submitted September 30, 2019 at 12:59AM by GhostCauliflower https://ift.tt/2oruxga https://ift.tt/eA8V8J