[yareally]

Sadly, the Android Modding community is usually short on throughly testing findings in a scientific way that goes beyond anecdotal evidence. When you inquire about such things or comment, you either get indifference or at worse, hostility from those that start to think you're better than others for wanting to find out the truth from statements. Some users start to confuse curosity and questioning with outright hostile interrogation and lay on comments like "if you don't like what this guy is doing, then don't use it or read it." Sure there are trolls that really do cause problems, but those that honestly want real answers or to help get thrown in with them at times.

Granted that it's not all like this as some groups out there and developers really do care about such things (like Cyanogenmod). However, that's typically not the mode of operation. For example, kernel modders that think it is a good idea to disable fsync by default. On top of that, they generally do not give an option to enable it for end users. Result was lots of data corruption when people pulled out their batteries.

This is just my observations from being heavily into the modding community for around 2+ years helping to administer one of the larger modding forums. I try to push for factual information as much as I can and to lead by example when possible through any code or mods I might publish, but the community is pretty set in its ways still. I do think my efforts aren't in vain when I get the occasional positive feedback from users, so it keeps me going. However, there are just too many non-developers mixed in with a minority of actual developers and end users cannot seem to discern between them.