[m_fayer]

Totally. I wonder if the wrong people at Apple and/or Google drank their own cool aid. Maybe they truly believe that the majority of their users wait for the next OS version with baited breath, ready and willing to incorporate whatever new features/apps the update force-feeds them into their "digital lifestyle", and truly learning and savoring all the new UX-mechanisms and redesigns they're handed. From the way these things are presented, it seems that they truly believe this. And some years ago there were many users like this.

These days, most people I know, both on the iOS and Android side of things, approach updates with a resigned sigh of "what are they going to make me relearn for no reason this time?" with a healthy pinch of "man I hope this doesn't break anything." If Apple/Google owned up to this reality, maybe the updates would be smoother.