Speaking from my own experiences, I've been experimenting with the Pixlr photo editing app, and using the "smooth" tool on the photos I made with the old 4.4.4. KitKat camera I have been able to achieve pretty similar results to what Lollipop 5.1.1. camera makes by default.
As I have said before, you can edit and smoothen the appearance of your photos easily, there are thousands of brilliant apps available for that. But you can't do anything to regain the details that the new and "improved" camera ommits on purpose.
Please leave it to users to decide what they'd like to achieve with their own photos, on their own phones, which they paid good money for. Even for those that didn't even care at first about Lollipop (I didn't even want to upgrade at first, but the hype got me in the end) it was basically shoved down our throats, no matter if we agreed with all the so-called improvements or not. If this is the way it's going to go then at least try to make it your responsibility to check if everything works properly, before forcing us to make the leap and upgrade, without even giving us an official way to downgrade if we weren't satisfied with the changes.
And now the lack of communication or official information on any possible solutions that are being worked on (if there are any being worked on at all, I'm afraid we kind of got thrown "under the bus" so to speak) is making people angry and upset, which is understandable. Ok, let's say you really do think that camera doesn't need to be fixed, but what about the rest of the bugs? Will they ever even be solved? It should be obvous by now that it's the new OS version that has caused all of this, so simply suggesting to do a factory reset or a repair via the PC companion is completely useless at this point. And if we're about to get left with Lollipop as our final major system upgrade, at least we should be entitled to get our problems sorted out, right? Or just include the M2 and its derivatives into the list of devices that will be upgraded to Marshmallow and fix the problems on that version.
I'm fine with KitKat, the phone works as it is supposed to since I downgraded, but I'm not really pleased with the fact that now I lost any hope of any future security related updates for my phone, unless I upgrade my phone to a faulty OS.
Nothing against you personally, Rickard, but me (and others will join me here without a doubt) would really appreciate if somebody would bring these issues to a greater attention and push Sony to actually do something about it, instead of just ignoring their entire line of devices (except from the flagships, which not everybody can afford). The way we're being treated here speaks volumes about how much they actually care about us, and if this continues they should expect us to return the courtesy and buy our new phones from another manufacturer next time around.
