Try to get text to flow around a rectangular image in slides. You know, how PowerPoint 97 can. It is impossible. I filed a bug for this a decade ago when I worked at Google. Nope. Still cannot be done.
You can't (or couldn't) do this in Android UI either. Unless you give up and do a webview widget. (that would have likely fixed the rest of my Android UI issues too)
The reason they can get away with not fixing basic things is because they don’t operate in a market that has healthy competition. I can’t think of how customers can get something better without addressing that issue.