It seems the lower performance is caused more from a very reserved power draw (probably due to limited yields for higher clocked processors) since this doesn't even touch 3Ghz unlike Apple As, Snapdragon 8Gs, MediaTek 9000s. Hope they come up with a SBC version like what the 990 had back then.
If they want to cut down suspicion for telemetry abuse they could swap to OpenHarmony instead, which has even less AOSP code inside.