I can say that I am still happy to have made the decision to give pure Android a hearty try. I love it. Yes, despite the fact that I have always heard from Android users that you "can do more" with Adroid over iPhone, I find out that, alas, it Is True. It may not sound like much to iPhone owners out there and there may be many that could give a care about the fact that Android gives the user access to file system heiarchy and storage in the device, but believe it or not this comes up more times than you would think. There were many times that I would think, "if only I were on my computer right now I could do ______________ with ______________." Those days are almost totally gone. With Android I can do the file conversions On Device rather than jump on my MacMiniServer to transcribe a file to an accepted format for my iPhone. There are ocassional times where I would want to download and save a voicemail on my iPhone in order to share or manipulate the file in some way and I never could. Once again I would have to get on my computer to truly pull those audio files off of my iPhone. With Android that's as easy as eating ice cream. Or maybe you want to change the source location for a file on your phone, just like you can on a computer. Well, with iPhone, you can't actuallly do that TRULY. You may be able to copy a file from one location to another, but you can't change the source location, which can be irritating. I did feel ocassionally technically hamstrung with iPhone. I no longer feel that way.
Yes, the Nexus 6 requires a bit more hands on involvement (because the device is two years old in technical design) to keep it running super smoothly, but I am happy to oblige and frankly, I am technically bent anyhow. Funny, how that sounds like a genetic condition that you'd want to be rid of, but it's not and in this case it's very helpful. Every so often, I've chosen to wipe the cache partition of the device's storage to maintain the overall computing speed of the device: a small price to pay for all the freedoms that I enjoy.
I am currently awaiting Google's Pixel XL that is set to arrive tomorrow and I imagine that this device will wipe away any kind of extensive user involvement required in order to maintain it's speedy operational style......at least for a while.
There is nothing that makes me pine for iPhone. In fact, I don't pine for it at all and the only places that I reflect about iPhone is in the system UI (Cocoa and what not) and the springiness of the apps. That's it. Google's AI is more advanced and conversational than Siri and yes, I have come to use the AI a lot and Google's services are, as you would expect, better integrated into the phone from the Floor up and that is extremely pleasing, smooth and luxurious for the user.
I would say that the grass is not neccessarily 'greener' on the other side of the 'fence', but it is certainly Just as 'Green'.