Personally, for instance, I'd have been perfectly happy if at least a few apps had stayed with the Android UI of a few versions back[1], before they went all flat and gesture-based. There was no demand from me, as a consumer, to imitate Apple's UI.
___ [1]: And no, that's not outmoded "skeumorphism". That concept means "imitation of physical objects", like that shell on top of Windows that was a picture of a room, with a picture of a Rolodex on top of a dedktop etc etc. In the decades since ~1985 a separate visual grammar had developed, where a gray rounded rectangle with "highlights" on the upper and left edges, "shadows" on the lower and right edges, and text in the middle meant "button" in the sense of "click here to perform an action", not any more in the original skeumorphic sense of "this is a picture of a bit of a 1980s stereo receiver".