It’s really great, that they are getting media attention for their developments.
My bet would be, that they are actively pushing those things.
(Though the first article by 9to5Google has got it wrong when stating, that FP2 came out with Android 7.1; it was 5.1 (I am still on 6…).
There are German articles as well.
I linked them in the thread on German articles
Edit:
And I found one article in French:
and one in Swedish