I really wish there were something like this for iOS. Facebook in particular seems obsessed with bloating their app by trying to become everything from Craigslist to SnapChat.

I use a app called "Metal Pro" basically a thin-veneer or the mobile web version of facebook. Been using it for over a year now, and glad to not have the official bloated app.

I used to be super irritated with updates for both OSes and apps. I can't tell you how long I force closed my last Android device's updater to prevent getting Android 5.x. Mostly after learning more about security vulnerabilities, I learned this really wasn't a reasonable or viable position to take.

Use the latest version. If you don't like it, switch to something else. Being attached to a specific version of a specific app is likely to doom you to constant frustration, because tech is always changing, compatibility always breaks, and new security vulnerabilities are always found. If you keep your data in standard file formats or protocols which are open, switching clients/apps is relatively painless. Detaching from nonstandard Gmail features opened up the entire width of IMAP clients to me, for instance.

In the above-mentionned case, that's why I just stopped using Android. After a while, it just isn't worth fighting upstream.