Comment by pjmlp
True, but iOS doesn't have OEMs having their own forks, which takes this to the same level as J2ME used to be.
Whatever they come up in GUI features, changes to AOSP behaviours, custom drivers, their own extended SDKs on top, hardware form factors,...
If you mean Chinese or Russian OEMs with their own version of ASOP, well that's not really Android anymore and is not using the Play app store anyway.
Western devices have to go through certification to use the name Android, so its not the wild wild west you think it is (although obviously some bugs may fall through).
See for example
https://source.android.com/docs/compatibility/cts