I am a long time user of Pixel (and Nexus) phones, and the quality control has never been that great, but some of the recent issues I see reported in online spa

I am a long time user of Pixel (and Nexus) phones, and the quality control has never been that great, but some of the recent issues I see reported in online spaces like https://reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/ https://reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/ have me strongly reconsidering other options. The pace of updates is only worth it if the updates don't come with serious bugs. For example, there have been users reporting that the Android 13 update bricked their phone. I have learned to treat major version upgrades with suspicion, and so I only upgrade after a few patches have been released. Mind you these phones are expensive. Imagine spending $900USD on phone, only to have critical functionality break on update.