> the end of x86

I'll believe that when there's an open ecosystem of state-of-the-art ARM (or RISC-V) devices based on industry consortiums reference specs. Until then, it's device trees all the way down or waiting for Qualcomm to get their Linux shit together. Yeah, didn't think so.

Did you just use qualcomm as an example of openness? I guess you never actually worked with qualcomm...