Frankly unacceptable results 🙁 guess I’ll check back in with the pixel next year.

This after another post somewhere on here yesterday (not sure which community) about Pixel owners moving away to other phones in increasing numbers because of worsening performance, and a high price tag that isn't keeping up with other phones spec-wise.

That said, I don't know where to go from here

They also continue to shove shitty AI into every corner of their devices with no way to easily remove or disable it. I've had a lot of Pixel devices and honestly they just keep getting worse. As I've moved away from Google products, I no longer have a strong reason to stick with them, other than Graphene OS, and soon I'll have Motorola as a replacement option.

That said, I don't know where to go from here

If you are disillusioned with Pixels, either try custom ROMs (if you haven't already), or go for a Sony Xperia device (HEADPHONE JACK + MICROSD WOOOOO!!!) or Fairphone (repairable! mobile Linux support!!)

I am currently eyeing the Xperia 10 VII as my next device, since it is affordable and has good LineageOS support

I'm happy with my 10 Fold, but...

Xperia

Fairphone

cries in US

lots and lots of reasons

cries in US

Oppo/Honour/xiaomi etc.

Chinese brands, where real innovation is happening again.

I've tried Oppo/OnePlus, but something about their Oxygen OS (I think it's called) bothered me. No experience with the other two.

It seems really hard to find those in the US, especially used for decent prices.

I wonder what the point of it is if it's not really an upgrade.

People are talking about flashing pixels, this is a tiny Android flavour change. I can get if people don't like bloat eg Samsung, but if we're talking Android we're talking Android.