Why did you break my phone w/ kitkat?

Last week I loved my phone.  Since 4.4.2 update I'm about ready to throw it away.
There are so many backward steps in the kit kat update I don't know where to begin...
Someone decided customers would accept Swype substitutes.  I disagree.  Google keyboard isn't the same.  But at least I understand that one as a financial decision... others just seem dumb.
A Google engineer changes signal strength indicators from blue to white "primarily because most users didn't know what the colors meant"?  Did you really have that many people asking "why is that blue? White is harder to read at a glance.
Another color choice - on my MAXX HD you have a nice multi-color LED for notifications that was working perfectly well but you switch it to all white? What do you have against green and blue? (Yes LightFlow is a workaround, but it's a pain and shouldn't have been necessary)
I had to reset/re-init all my bluetooth devices.  I'm still not convinced they're working reliably, especially when used w/ WiFi.
Ringtones had to be reset from scratch.
Waze voice prompts are broken.  Other apps are erratic but hard to pinpoint the symptoms... but the unreliability started with the update.
Text message background color of all white for what reason? What was wrong with the old format?
Message notifications in widgets don't clear as before, requiring extra steps. In general SMS navigation has changed.  Why?
Battery life is noticeably less.
Who approved this rollout?
If this is an indication of where Verizon quality is headed I'm looking elsewhere for my next phone.

Swype going away has NOTHING to do with Verizon. That has to do with Nuance licensing beta software to manufacturers and then that licensing expiring. It's not up to Verizon on that deal and all dependent on Nuance and manufacturers.
If you want Swype you have to purchase a license from Nuance(play store). Don't worry about the "warning" all keyboards give that warning even preinstalled ones.

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