Agreed. Ppl have an initial impression that simpler software is faster but once that software gets all the required features (if it ever does) the speed has, in

Agreed. Ppl have an initial impression that simpler software is faster but once that software gets all the required features (if it ever does) the speed has, in my experience, rarely been as good. I saw the same thing in the early HTC/Samsung smartphone wars. Lots of negative comments/reviews but once you added all the required Sense features via 3rd party apps to comparable Samsung/Google phones the speed was seldom as good. Turns out in that case, it was actually paid astroturfing on samsung's part: http://www.idigitaltimes.com/samsung-fined-340000-fake-htc-reviews-paid-comments-slamming-competitors-revealed-ftc-video-334235 http://www.idigitaltimes.com/samsung-fined-340000-fake-htc-r... Sadly I find the android studio (intellij) spped about the same as elcipse and I don't have any plugins loaded in Android Studio.