Taste is subjective though, and if you don't happen to like what Apple provides you are out of luck. There are many more ways to customize Android without rooting, and I think that is cool.
Hacker news does sort of self select for people who value tinker-ability over any kind of aesthetic design choices. I think we are part of a relatively small minority here.
The Android ui is much better than apple. They don’t and effects are nicer on Apple.
apple isn't innovating their designs either, they are more going for fossilizing their increasingly rounded corners, kind of like the rolls-royce of phones