Historically, not having a light version of Android often just encouraged crazy hardware vendors to choose an even worse form of fragmentation: sticking to an older version of Android.
If those are the two choices, I think it's better to have everyone on a different flavor of the current release. At least then users have a better shot at getting security updates and app developers don't have to target quite as wide a range of API levels.
If those are the two choices, I think it's better to have everyone on a different flavor of the current release. At least then users have a better shot at getting security updates and app developers don't have to target quite as wide a range of API levels.