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Or, give people easy to use task manager that shows background processes, with big buttons labeled "kill", and "kill and keep down".

Android doesn't have anything like it either. It's my number 1 complaint about smartphone experience ever since I bought my first one: the phone actively refuses to give user insight and control over what's running on their device.

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> Android doesn't have anything like it either.

Uh, it sure does through the applications section. You can see running services, which ones are taking battery, and stop/disable those as well.

Recently, yes. Wasn't really the case for most of the lifetime of Android project, at least if my memory serves. Also even today, the application section is barely usable as it is.

Contrast that with e.g. the task manager on Windows. It's not a pinnacle of UI, but it's easy to use, communicates necessary information, and gets the job done.

In early android we had more insight and control over processes, but unfortunately we lost that supposedly due to abuse by apps (which seems highly likely)

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