I've been reading the forums for a few months now, finally decided to create an account and share my own .02 cents.
One thing that I think people often forget, especially on Android forums, is that a stock Android experience is not what made Motorola king-of-the-hill with the Droid release. Those results rest solely on the Droid being the first Android device released that was overall a pretty polished device, both inside and out, on a well-rounded network. If Moto had released it with their first version of Blur, it still would have sold rather well.
You've got to remember, most of us here are not exactly "average consumers". Honestly, we end up griping about one thing or another while our friends and family laugh it off because they are the average consumers, and they see nothing wrong with the phones as they are.
With that said, I think Moto might be on to something... if they take a more hands-on approach with android and consumers like us (who see what the shortcomings are), creating a Blur that picks up in areas where stock Android leaves off to create a better running OS as a whole.
Will this probably be the case? No, as most companies, both manufacturers and service providers, feel the need to put some form of bloatware in devices, lock everything down because they think everyone and their grandmother wants to steal their software, create slight hardware differences between phones for "more profits", etc.
But it's nice to dream.
