But then you're supporting google itself 👀

Also, they closed source pixel-specific code, making it much more difficult to do future securitu updates. If I'm gonna spend $500+, I rather spend it on a Fairphone.

Used market can mitigate the "google makes money from you" part, but there are so many carrier variants that are "unlocked" but not bootloader unlocked, and I don't like playing lootboxes with real money, like okay I buy a phone, oh shit its a verizon and can't unlock bootloader, and the seller refuses return, and platform sides with seller because its technically "unlocked" because the sim unlock is all the normies care about.