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I have used Jelly Bean both on S3 and Nexus 4. What I found is that Jelly Bean gets really slow after a while and you need to factory reset every couple of months. Newer versions of Android don't have this issue.

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A factory reset unapplies all updates. But for instance, Chrome will auto-update even without you being logged into a Google account.

Factory reset on android can only reset the apps to the version of the app that came with the OS release. It doesn't revert any OS updates. Also all apps are updated by Google Play as long as you're logged in and haven't disabled auto-update.

Android 5 did revert my Chrome.

Sites worked faster for a while on my very old device.

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