Also just how important certain features are to you personally.

For me notifications are generally more annoying than they are useful, and this doesn’t change under Android. In fact the emphasis that Android puts on them in the shade really sucks for me because it’d much rather have the quick settings pane fully visible than room for a couple more notifications — having to swipe again to see all the toggles is super annoying. So for me, the split shade that iOS does where swiping down on the top right edge of the screen shows only your quick toggles is preferable.

Some people basically live in their notifications, though. I’ve never been able to understand it, but they do, and so the Android way works better for them.

I think there are also less subjective aspects though, like the choice of animation curves through much of Android feels “wrong” somehow and different from almost everything else else out there, including Windows, Linux desktops, etc.

> So for me, the split shade that iOS does where swiping down on the top right edge of the screen shows only your quick toggles is preferable.

Just FYI, on Samsung Android Devices this is implemented as you describe.

Useless info: I think the feature was first implemented on Android 3 (Honeycomb) but then abandoned again on Android 4 (ICS)

Just block all your apps from generating notifications. Long press the ones that show up in the pane and turn them off permanently. Eventually you will have them all eliminated.