In time you may, but perhaps you were confused about the primary use-case context bringing up small linux SBM. The mess Yocto can leave behind was not something manufacturers prioritized, and there are countless half-baked solutions simply abandoned within a single release cycle. Out of date package versions, and storage space-optimized stripped/kludged binaries are the consequences. Historically, the things people did to get the minimal OS on flash also meant builds that are not repeatable/serviceable, buggy/unreliable (hence custom patches), and ultimately in mountains of e-waste.

My point was Yocto has always created liabilities/costs no one including its proponents wanted to address over the long-term. Best of luck =3

The difference in unit volumes drives wide variances in tolerances of additional development difficulty/cost.