Opinions vary quite a bit on that. I imagine the appeal of this is similar to that of hackintoshing: Apple software with the diversity of generic hardware.

Personally speaking as someone who's had to use both platforms in varying capacities in the past decade I do not find myself fond of Android, particularly modern Android. When I booted up an old Android 9 device a few months back I was struck with how much more appeal that version held compared to its contemporary counterpart.

Blue bubbles.

Not with a locked bootloader, not yet anyway.

> Apple is terrible at software

You can’t write something like that and then follow up with

> what the people (me) want is the opposite, Android running on Apple hardware :)