So not only do you buy hardware for this toxic ecosystem, but you directly contribute to its success, and still complain about it. Nice.

Android is fine. At least the sausage recipe is available, iOS is a black box that's probably just about as gross inside. You can choose to use technologies that don't disrespect you as a user and a consumer.

iOS is not a toxic ecosystem, I love the OS they also have far superior hardware. Sure, lacking a headphone jack is annoying, but I can live with that. I can't live with Android phones using inferior CPU's and GPU's. I also wouldn't want to use Google's horribly over-engineered OS.

Why does your phone need a powerful CPU or GPU? What exactly are you doing with it that demands that?

Without going into specifics, I work on some mobile software that does heavy image processing of the live camera feed.

Getting a decent frame rate on shitty Android hardware (even the so-called high-end devices) is quite a challenge. iPhones are so much faster it's not even funny.