I don't even need half of the storage, RAM and CPU speed in here.

This is kinda surprising to me. I constantly feel limited by the 8GB ram in my Pixel. I thought it would be a noticeable upgrade from my previous 6GB but it honestly barely is. Apps are killed in the background immediately after leaving them and tabs are very quickly unloaded. Even with nothing open, I typically only have <2 free gigs. Everything is very bloated these days to the point where it's fairly common for even websites to consume several hundred megabytes of RAM on their own. Might be fine for some but I don't see myself buying anything with less than 16GB in the future if I can avoid it.

CPU power is much less of a big deal, but Google tensor is kind of anemic and it shows. My phone struggles to even compute cloudflare security checks sometimes and apps take a pretty long time to install. Thermal management and efficiency/battery drain is downright terrible. Video calls absolutely kill the battery.

I don't personally have a need for a ton of storage on a phone, but I can understand why people would if they're torrenting or have local media, etc.

That said, I don't really want to spend this amount of money on anything less than perfect. This thing is way too large for me physically and it probably won't be very repairable either. Currently debating whether to buy a pixel 9 or 10 pro now vs wait for a cheaper moto option.