Those stats simply missleading.
Here's official stats http://developer.android.com/resourc...-versions.html

Only about 10% use 1.* version...
52% allready have Froyo 2.2 and higher...

On the other hand.., having another android device (and making custom firmware for both), I must, to say that EE made a good job in bringing android to EE. Android by itself contains a lot of bugs, so it's not an easy task to create stable firmware.