Because its grapheneos you will likely have NFC, but whether you have tap-for-payment options will be a crapshoot, especially in North America, unless having an official vendor changes things with grapheneos's play store integrity issue (which is doubtful).

I quite like my Razr. I'm sure if they're aiming to be a true alternative to the mainstream OSs, they'll be including many of the mainstream features

I'm old school, I remember when NFC was used for stuff like domotics

Motorola was kind of sluggish/selective about those, but they seem to pretty consistently have those features now. Always worth double checking.

I don't think I have ever heard that for the a series. That if fact, I have always heard that it is just about the best price-value on the market, the downside being that it is google and no SD card slot (which is common now). They use the flagship chip in it still, right?

What? When I was buying my last phone prev gen Pixel cost me 1/3 of what I would have to pay for a Fairphone. It's the exact opposite, less popular phones with long support are way too expensive compared to Pixel.

I grant that Motorola may neglect to go top of the line (e.g. there's no 'flagship grade' non-folding phone on offer right now), but price wise, at least in the US, it seems to be in line with other options and the cheaper options are generally motorola.

Is this US or elsewhere? What are the better value competition in the mid-lower range.

Big disagree here. Still offer a jack, SD card, etc. Worth way more to me than a high end processor that I don't use any more than a mid range one.