Is that really a 'horrible' experience? Once you've googled 5.x and you know it's Lollipop, do you not memorize that? I mean how often do you check your phone for what version of the OS it's running?
It would be fine if Android bumped major version numbers. But if I have to think about versioning once a month then it's hard to remember whether it was 5.1 or 5.2 or 5.3.
