No amount of optimism or wishful thinking could change the fact that Google and Lenovo have drastically different goals and business interests. That's not to say Motorola won't produce any worthwhile phones moving forward, but it's certainly not the same Motorola the Android community once celebrated. It's a change in culture we've been seeing unfold for a while, culminating in Moto's recent Marshmallow meltdown and the painfully loud silence that surrounded it.
It was good while it lasted, but the Lenovo-owned Motorola of today is clearly a different company than the darling Google once molded for us.