Sightlings seem to only care about the camera and the display

Yep, and not as much about accessibility. For now, I'm still on iOS 16 on my main phone because 17's broken some things I rely on, and only half-fixed others.

I'm on 17. It's okay, but they've yet to fix the bug where VO stops talking weithout warning for several seconds. I'm thinking offf buying a Pixel once my 13pm dies but that's going to be a few years out

Yeah, and the Mail app and misspelled words doesn't work, and they made some stuff with Eloquence worse. I might move to 17 in August. But I'm honestly just frustrated, and I have a Pixel and it lags a bit in my experience.

It does, but I'll take a slight bit of lag when scrolling over me being afraid to ever update my devices because it's incredibly likely that they introduced a VO bug that'll completely break my workflow. Android, for all its access flaws, hardly if ever has done this.

The biggest thing with Android vs iOS these days is that Android has a few things that work incredibly shittily, like scrolling through a large page of apps or a Mastodon timeline, or touch typing. But god dammit if it isn't reliable. There's no hitting the back button deciding to throw you somewhere half a second later, no weird breakage with the TTS processor, no having to wait for an actual software update to update your screen reader... I could run Talkback 12 if I wanted. And, they actually communicate! The trusted tester program exists, as does the quarterly news letter where they go into detail about accessibility features they add to *all* products, not just talkback.