Why do people hate it? Why haven't Google stopped it?

Because people don't know what it is and it fills up the memory on their low end 8gb phones.

I don't have many problems with it outside of needing Amplify to remove dumb wakelocks.

I need that shit in order to run Diablo SuperBiker.apk

>>55256799
The only time it becomes useful is when checking my location using Google maps. Other than that it's just there to spy you and to eat your battery.
It's literally Good Goyim: The software

>>55256799
Basically, if you didn't have play services, your battery would be kill because each app would need to get its own messages independently. Play services let's all messages for your phone (app updates, notifications, communications) to get bundled together so your phone only has to poll Google rather than 1001 different servers.

my iphone 5 running ios 9.3.2 doesn't have this problem.

>>55256999
>ios 9.3.2
>9.3.2
>9
checked

It really whips the llama's ass