Regardless of how it is, it's too late: Android is the new Windows, iOS the new System7, and everything else is the equivalent of AmigaOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc...
About ease of development being a gateway to shovelware, yeah right as if the artificially high and expensive barrier to iOS is keeping all the fart apps away. The fact is if there's money to be made then everyone will try to get in, even the wantrepreneurs hiring cheap coders to copy some old game and repackage it as something new (for more information check Harvest Moon).
If Android has more freemium shovelware is simply because it became the dominant OS in that industry, so wantrepreneurs are targeting that market instead, same as it happened with Windows and MacOS.
About ease of development being a gateway to shovelware, yeah right as if the artificially high and expensive barrier to iOS is keeping all the fart apps away. The fact is if there's money to be made then everyone will try to get in, even the wantrepreneurs hiring cheap coders to copy some old game and repackage it as something new (for more information check Harvest Moon).
If Android has more freemium shovelware is simply because it became the dominant OS in that industry, so wantrepreneurs are targeting that market instead, same as it happened with Windows and MacOS.