Eschewing the traditional application architecture has made for both a terrible development experience and poor quality applications in general. The application lifecycle is convoluted with even the Android developers joking about how confusing it is. Everything about the model has made it far more difficult to port existing software to, and native development for me personally has been an absolute nightmare. No clean exit strategy for applications, half the methods in the lifecycle don't even get called, etc. I can't imagine the completely naive and oblivious thought process that led to the mess they created. Good thing Android is backed by Google though, so no matter how terrible it is it'll still be popular.