I'd rather have the stock version with a lot less bloatware as Sony sees fit to include a lot of
largely useless apps around the edges such as Kobo, Amazon or even its own Xperia Premium app to offer events.
With Xiaomi's aggressive
app management enabled, the staying power of the Mi Mix 2 is astronomical, but that's
largely because it throttles background processes to the point of them being almost
useless — hardly ideal when you want notifications to come through instantly.