Just "upgraded" to a Pixel 8 from a 4a (it wasn't even my intention to do so, went to have my 4a battery replaced but the shop botched the job and I needed a working phone quickly), I agree with every point made by the author. It does the same things as the 4a did, just marginally faster. Screen is better but I don't really care, and using it with one hand is harder.
On top of that, I'm praying the dreaded green screen issue does not appear (it did on a coworker's Pixel 8).
Oh well, at least I got security updates now...
Same here. Pixel 5 has been amazing and would love to keep it but the arbitrary stopping of OS and security updates is forcing my hand. I have searched long and far for the technical reasons (some security chip, ram requirements, processor features, etc) but can't seem to come up with anything. Makes it hard to reason about this in any other way than they want to sell more things.
