Re: Soft target?
"and remain connected to the network and be available"
Semi-false: I have a phone where you can power networking off separately and independently:
a) all dataconnections including gprs
b) wifi
c) bluetooth
And all of those are in a quick-access menu, literally one swipe and a tap to turn on/off.
Not doing it that way in google-phone is a choice made by Google, nothing else.