I imagine there's a major attitude difference in the support model for SoCs made for Chromebooks and laptops compared to the ones for smartphones. Smartphones on average are kept for barely over two years in the US, whereas people hang onto a laptop for nearly 5 years.
People are used to desktops and laptops chugging along until they get tired of them being slow, rather than their device or OS vendor cutting them off.
People are used to desktops and laptops chugging along until they get tired of them being slow, rather than their device or OS vendor cutting them off.