DarkSky was at least incorporated into their weather app tho.

From what I've heard, it sounds like it's not nearly as good or simple an experience as DarkSky was. But as an Android user I wouldn't know, DarkSky was just killed by Apple for everyone but Apple customers when they merged it in.

As an Android user you can absolutely pay for access to dark sky's api.

I think I can pay for access to the Apple Weather api, which is neither the DarkSky api, nor the DarkSky app that was killed by Apple.