I think it's also a chicken-or-egg question:
Apple users are more willing to pay for apps. So if you're a dev and you want to release a paid app, iOS is the platform of choice. So more devs release paid apps on iOS, so iOS becomes the platform with more paid apps. So users are more used to pay for apps. So paying for apps is normalized, so Apple users are more willing to pay for apps.
Etc. etc. etc.
I hear you. Yes, not a fan of people being hostile just because something is different.
I'm just hoping that people who enjoy this experience will stay and that more people who also like this experience will join, and that people who want everything to be exactly like Reddit will return to Reddit or to some Reddit-like platform that works exactly like Reddit.
but the problem is these people want it to be done by the service/devs/whatever.
I'll give people the benefit of the doubt. Coming from a centralized service means people are used to things working in a certain way, and they may just not have considered all the advantages of not being forced into a single, centralized service.
Isn't it weird that we live in a world with fake plants that are mass produced to the degree that many of us recognize them in a photo, that the table has fake distressed wood, that the floor is fake wooden paneling?
So many things have become attainable because of mass production, but isn't it weird that we live in a world where these things exist? Where you can walk into somebody's home in s different country, on a different continent, and go "yeah, i have the same thing at home?"
Yeah, same boat here.
I absolutely love how Home Assistant can handle virtually any device or integration you throw at it, but for the time being, I'm keeping all my logic in webCoRE on Hubitat.
It's not so much that iOS is confusing.
It's more that you have to learn which things are just completely impossible to do on iOS for the single reason that Apple doesn't want users to do those things.
On Android, things that should be possible from a technical point of view are generally possible. Might take a while to figure things out, but generally, things are achievable.
On iOS, there's either a fairly straightforward way to do things, or there's not even a point in trying, because Apple has locked that shit down to the point where you'll just waste days trying to find a way, only to give up on the end.
I've got endless examples, from trying to move files/documents/music on, to, or from an iOS device in a non-Apple-approved way to sending media over non-Apple-approved channels to something as simple as syncing calendars in a way that Apple doesn't like.
On Android, all of these things can be achieved in a couple of minutes.
I used to bother with jailbreaking and all that jazz - but ultimately, to me, owning a shiny Apple device isn't worth having to deal with all the randomly imposed limitations.