My nerdy guess is they might be planning to integrate Android and Chrome OS to make something like Samsung DeX, especially given the recent, somewhat half-baked Type-C Alt mode support on the Pixel 8 and later models.

BTW, Termux is awesome, but it has its downsides, like no proper thumb drive support due to Android SAF limitations. Yesterday, I went down the rabbit hole trying to access a CircuitPython virtual flash drive via SSH using Termux. (I actually opened this post hoping for something on that, but nope.)