Yes, my admittedly limited exposure to Android has been negatively tinted due to this. Rooting and installing stock Android on a first gen Kindle Fire and later

Yes, my admittedly limited exposure to Android has been negatively tinted due to this. Rooting and installing stock Android on a first gen Kindle Fire and later on, a Google Pixel C tablet are both sitting high in my list of most frustrating technical endeavors despite being a software dev and enthusiastically embracing technology for the past two decades of my life. I was shocked to find that the process was only moderately more straightforward on first party android devices. If I ever buy another android device I’m going to treat it like an iOS device and not even bother with the tinkering aspect. It’s too much of a mess to be enjoyable for me.