True, but not entirely Fairphone’s fault, as they were dependent themselves on the chip vendor for support, which wasn’t there anymore.
Thats why they didn’t choose Mediatek again for the next phone.
Learning curve.
Anyway, when prioritizing App compatibility, people made do with the available Android 4.4.2 alpha, and nowadays make do with @z3ntu’s rather well received Android 4.4.4 build.
Not necessarily a bad thing 
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Don’t you want the employees to feel good about their work?
I get what you want to say, though, I just don’t see it this gloomy.
How dare they try to stay in business and continue to try to better the industry ? What kind of an argument is this?
Afterall we’re all stuck in capitalism, with all its basic problems. How are Fairphone supposed to operate outside it?
The good thing is that nobody forces you to, but we could have used some recommendation now on which choice would be better if we want to make a point … at least when keeping a current phone any longer finally may fail as an option.
Buying second-hand, albeit a good idea in general, is not everybody’s favourite thing to do regarding electronics.
We as customers can try to help with that, can’t we?