I must say I highly disagree, these days widgets on Android are terrible, just awful. I did a fairly deep dive this past week in an effort to really try and like my XL 3, entertaining thoughts of possibly considering going back to Android. All the old widgets I used to use all lost functionality, for example Google widgets don't have any scrolling within the widgets anymore such as in Google voice and Gmail and the fonts are way too huge. I used to be able to make the fonts smaller with Nova launcher by making the desktop grid smaller, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. Some apps don't even have a widget anymore at all. Another overlying issue is the vast difference in UI, graphics, titlebar size, etc that make having all these widgets close together look just awful. Most of them have sizing limitations making it difficult to place them with other widgets, resulting in a lot of wasted space and extra home screens.
I also tried to use 3rd party widget programs. Zooper is gone now, from what I understand that was pretty decent. I tried a few others, but basically you are limited to things like clock, very limited calendar, weather and such.
Having widgets all in one place makes excellent sense, but that's for myself I won't try and speak for you as much of this is personal preference. Keep in mind that essentially your widgets screen on iOS is your home screen in most ways, I'm actually surprised there isn't an option to default to it. It's just nice to be able to vertically scroll through all my widgets, nice and uniform matching in UI and readily available. There are some things missing in iOS though such as being able to scroll through messages and some Android widgets are cool like seeing a live video feed, although I haven't tested to see if these widgets still work or if they are even still available. I get that Android has that PC desktop feel to the home screens which I really do like, but the widgets have gone so far downhill in both functionality and appearance it doesn't make much sense anymore.
