" I wonder whether it actually is a lack of intuition, or that I am so locked into the iOS way that it ends up feeling foreign right from the start"
Both, but mostly the latter. If you use both OSes regularly each becomes pretty natural to use.
But there are some baffling things in Android that are just too vaguely defined, like the oft-mentioned-here back button.
I use Android every day, and I'm still not 100% sure what the backbutton is going to do when I press it, even in apps I use pretty often. Unfortunately fixing this now isn't that easy because each app's Activities gets to choose what happens when the back button is pressed. This is bad for the obvious reason that some developers are bound to do the wrong thing, but made worse by the fact that Google themselves have attempted to "redefine" the back button various times and each attempt has made things more confusing (IMO).
Both, but mostly the latter. If you use both OSes regularly each becomes pretty natural to use.
But there are some baffling things in Android that are just too vaguely defined, like the oft-mentioned-here back button.
I use Android every day, and I'm still not 100% sure what the backbutton is going to do when I press it, even in apps I use pretty often. Unfortunately fixing this now isn't that easy because each app's Activities gets to choose what happens when the back button is pressed. This is bad for the obvious reason that some developers are bound to do the wrong thing, but made worse by the fact that Google themselves have attempted to "redefine" the back button various times and each attempt has made things more confusing (IMO).