I'll tell you my story and maybe it will help you out.

I've always been a geek and loved technology, so my fist cellphone was back in the day, one of those 5120 Nokia bricks, and it was a very basic phone, it was back in the days of ICQ, and I was able to chat with my GF via SMS (they were free at the time), I don't know how I managed that but I did, I also set up background images sent via SMS from a webpage I found.

In any case I've almost all of the time have felt constrained by the functionality or the lack thereof of my electronics. My first venture into the smartphone arena was with a Blackberry 8100 (Pearl), that phone had an RGB set of LED under the pearl and I found out about it and got to work finding a way to use those LEDs, I found an app that would manage the LED's and notifications for that phone, so I was able to customize it to my heart's content. It also was the era where mobile browsers were crap and nobody thought Flash was going away, so since the default browser couldn't display many pages I sought a better browser that would let me go through Flash sites, and I found one, I also got my phone to download MIDI and MP3 files for ringtones, I had to maximize my experience.
I went through 2 other BlackBerry phones before I migrated to an iPhone 4s. My last BlackBerry was a 9800(Storm) it was touchscreen with a slide out keyboard, I hated the on screen keyboard and had to have whatever I could to maximize my experience, it was a time when the BIS (BlackBerry Internet Services) crashed for a few days and the phones were just phones and not smartphones. So I jumped to an iPhone 4s as soon as I could and enjoyed it immensely, but I had to jailbreak it, there were too many thing limiting my experience, WhatsApp wouldn't let me get silence and vibration as a notification, so I got an app for that through Cydia, I wanted an easy way to toggle settings and I got that through Cydia, I wanted to set Chrome as my default browser, and I got that through Cydia, I wanted to be able to download whatever file I wanted to my phone, I got that through Cydia. Weird thing is most of those things were stock with Android.

In any case I got a Nexus 4 when they were going for $250, I decided that I was fed up with my 4s, and that I wanted more battery and a faster phone, if the Android phone didn't satisfy my needs in a week I'd sell it and use that money towards an iPhone 5, I lasted at most 2 days longing for iOS, after that I knew Android was the OS for me, I was free to do whatever I wanted, battery was great, the screen was awesome and the size difference was not as hard to get accustomed to and the phone was blazing fast.
Now, keep in mind I used BlackBerry before iOS, so I was already accustomed to home, back and option buttons, my experience starting with iOS was a bit strange for me, but I understood how I was supposed to navigate the OS with just a home button, with Android I came back to the 3 button approach and I felt right at home, it took me all of 2 days to get the hang of it and never look back.

What I'm trying to get at and what could be called the TL;DR: of this reply is that if you are willing to give something new a shot you might find out that it's actually more in tune to what you really want, or things you didn't know you wanted until you saw them.

That's why I encourage you to try out an Android phone, It doesn't have to be a flagship, it just has to be one of the new crop that comes with KitKat, you'll find that it's a great OS. And if you don't like it, no harm no foul, you can go back to the comfort of iOS you know and love.