Relay I think was the android counterpoint to Apollo in that it is always up to date with the Android design language of the time. It is by far my favourite Reddit app and DBrady is a champ. I don't know if it's worth 3USD a month though. Especially when a large chunk of that goes to Reddit. I would definitely be down for a Relay for Lemmy though.
I've been around long enough now to know that that sort of thing is unavoidable long term (and with popularity). The good thing about Lemmy is it's pretty low-friction to set up a new community on a different instance if need be.