Your two complaints are that 1) your phone is slow and old, and 2) a specific app is poorly put together. Somehow, from this, your conclusion is that the entire Android ecosystem is broken/worthless/something.
That's ridiculous, to put it mildly.
That's ridiculous, to put it mildly.
I don't see these posts (and there are a few of them, for every phone, every OS, and every carrier) as people wanting to turn others away from the phone, but rather wanting to turn attention to the flaws. Flaws that can then be fixed by the maker of the system. Nothing turns a company's head faster than bad publicity.
The Nexus One is old, I'll give you that. As I point out though, this is somehow still the average experience for any Android user. My phone isn't that far behind the top-end Android phones these days.
Android makes some tradeoffs to give their users choice. It has upsides and downsides, but the true benefit is that people can decide for themselves if they want beefier hardware to run the same relative speed but have more control over the OS, or if they want the other give-and-take. There's less overhead on iOS and WP7, but there's also less control.
I love the market we have right now. There's almost literally something for everyone. I just wish Palm was back in to round it out with WebOS.