@grenudi Well, some quick items about this:
Lomiri (aka Unity8) has 15 years of development (>)
Unity is developed by a professional and capable team of designer and UX experts. I don't know why random people get the idea that the desktop is designed to be «just different from X».
Lomiri has its own language and design. Object of which are simple, intuitive and beatifull.
Ubuntu Touch is not Android.
Ubuntu users are used to Unity patterns. So, have them in Ubuntu Touch makes sense to us.
(offtopic) Andoird UI is a mess, but the more time passes, the more it adopts Unity design language.