[tdkl]

MIUI > AOSP/Google Android, but that's my opinion.

They even fixed the shitty non existant backup/restore situation on Android, hence why Titanium Backup&Restore is the best selling paid app for years. Built in solution backups apps with data (also overrides backup permission set in manifest) and all system settings. You can run it periodically, save in desired storage location, locally or in MI Cloud. After I had to reflash cousins phone which had a vendor MIUI installed, the restore did everything and was almost a 1:1 copy.

Not to mention updates, my budget 135€ device has January 2017 Android security update and is updated weekly.

It has it's own funny things though, like expanding notifications with two fingers only and a bit fiddling to allow apps to run in background and receive notifications, but this whitelisting isn't anything different that other Android vendors have done to save battery.

[aembleton]

You also can't change the launcher.

[Max_Mustermann]

Of course you can, I'm running Nova Launcher.

[aembleton]

I take it back. I had to check what my last Chinese phone was. It was a Letv 1s running EUI. I thought it was MIUI.

I found the software a bit frustrating but I can tell you the build quality was the best I've experienced in a phone. Mind you, all my phones have been sub £200.