Reading Moore’s paper (which is the reference of the marketing person who coined the term), Moore’s law isn’t just miniaturisation, it was also an observation that’s the economics would improve. ie that building N transistors is cheaper on the next smaller node than the previous.

And without the economics working, the shrinking would never have occurred at the rate it did for so long.

So yes, it getting bigger would be against the spirit of the law.

Nah screw needing adb, that absolutely kills free and open source software stores like fdroid, and fdroid have said as much that Google’s then planned signing requirements would lead fdroid to stop.

The only way I’d even be remotely OK with another adb requirement is if

1. it’s a requirement to unlock the ability to install unsigned apps, ie it’s not to an install an app but set a flag
2. #1 becomes a requirement for Google certification so all manufacturers have to allow it
3. It doesn’t cause other types of attestation to fail that we see with unlocked, rooted and third party roms failing certain checks preventing some apps, most commonly banking ones from working