The basic premise isn’t false, you just decided it was.
Snapchat and Instagram did irreparable damage to Android’s reputation for an entire generation of people because of how relaxed Google’s restrictions were on lazy developers.
Instagram, the application that was so infamously Apple-only for a long time that there was public backlash for making an android version, when one of the main reasons for not having android app was simply that they had a small team and wanted to avoid splitting effort?
You forgot about the 10 years that the instagram app just used the camera preview for pictures (as did snapchat), and now the average person thinks Android phones have bad cameras.
That's how badly Google mishandled Android, they listened to smooth brained tech bros who thought giving developers freedom would be a good idea, and Apple has always said they would ruin the user experience. Years later that "closed" ecosystem is so good Google has to beg lawmakers to let them access it because now there's a whole generation of people who see Android as a steaming pile of garbage, because it's exactly what Google let it become to the average person.
Snapchat and Instagram did irreparable damage to Android’s reputation for an entire generation of people because of how relaxed Google’s restrictions were on lazy developers.