[0xelectron]

Believe it or not, but, there are people who don't like stock android. They want to be able differentiate themselves. Why do you think companies like Xiaomi, vivo, oppo, etc are a huge success.

[jtmcmc]

In part because you can't use google services in China so you don't get all those parts of Android...

[pound]

they are huge success not because of software differentiations, they just plain cost less