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The Pixels are probably the best high-end phone, but today the selection available is all bad enough that your choice comes down to "what features can I lose?"
Even the likes of OnePlus have been shit for years. A company that literally entered the market on releasing an affordable flagship with near-stock software. Their last great phone was the OnePlus 6, before they decided to start ditching features.
I had assumed that more companies would enter the market and take over, but that hasn't happened. You still end up with no choice, whether it's a poor screen, an awful camera, no storage, removed ports/jacks, no NFC support, or stupid little features that no one would actually give a shit about.
The strength of early Android was that you had flagship phones that had the best new features, and experimental releases that tried new things on a budget like barcode scanners, slide-out keyboards, a desktop OS, remote features, etc. This still exists, but you're paying even more for the pleasure of testing something in the wild.
IMO, the world could use a new mobile OS, and one grounded in reality.
I think it depends on what you are looking for in a high-end phone, as Google's Tensor chips are not equivalent performers to the chips found in other smartphones at that price range. Consumers are being asked to pay a high-end price for the performance of a high-end phone from several years ago or an upper mid-range phone today.
Which ironically was what the Nexus line was good at. Good hardware, mid-range prices.
When they started charging iPhone prices and called it Pixel, I bailed.