AOSP will soon be unusable (if it isn't already) without Google's services. And thank you very much, I don't want google services on my phone. Less and less things work without play services nowadays (location and push being two of them), so I really don't understand the evangelism for android over mer/nemo or fremantle.

I know they are not ready for use in other devices, but it's not that the work you describe there is easy stuff to pull off.

After the latest developments (physical location tracking etc.) I think we should avoid Google's version of android at any cost.