Honestly if every brand would stop making their own shitty launchers and filling their phones with bloatware this would mostly not happen anymore I think. Pure Android on Google Pixel phones is hands down better than every other version.

Only cheap and shallow people hate Android. These people are not worth spending time with. There is no legitimate reason to hate Android.

It is only bad in the sense that it could be so much more, but it certainly is the best we have for phones atm.