I honestly don't understand what you could possibly be talking about. You cannot customize iOS. Its definitely not clean with the contrived liquid glass shit. You probably bought a lemon android like a pixel 6 that had hardware issues. Google hardware is shit but Apple hardware isn't worth being told who you can download apps from and when. If you want clean and simple, get off technology. Shit isn't free. Apple will make changes you don't like, and you won't be able to do anything about it, unlike android users. By the way my main device is an iPhone if that helps. I have an iPhone 15 pro max, apple watch ultra, iPad air m3, and airpods pro. I am no apple hater. I want them to stop fucking themselves, but they won't. So I'm leaving them. Them breaking the keyboard earlier this year is the main thing that did it for me. They cut my typing speed by 3. From 90 wpm to under 30. Nothing I could do about it except use a different keyboard. And that doesn't work as well on iOS as on android. Nothing does, except for battery efficiency and network connectivity, those are better on iOS.

I've been flip flopping between android and iOS since the iPod Touch 2nd gen and Galaxy Note 3. Apple and Google are equally retarded. Open source is the only good alternative.