Then comes the question if you want a crap app or no app at all. The maemo way of things was cool IMO. You can have extras (ok I know the community QA never worked very well, but it would if maemo lived on - see debian) if you want the highest quality apps, and you could delve into devel if you absolutely need something and you could live with a bug or two, or bad interface.

I for one I am extremely happy we have xchat and gnumeric, even if they aren't totally native and need a stylus, because they are fully functional. Other apps might be finger friendly and pretty, but seeing "find&replace" making headlines as a new feature of Google Drive for android in 2013 is just sad.