Your phone lineup is almost a mirror to mine, and your sentiments match mine as well. I used to root phones and flash custom ROMs to get the stock android experience on the garbage phones Verizon would sell me. The point was to get less bloat, and a functional device that I could get to do what I want with it. Once there was a nexus phone compatible with my carrier, I moved to Google's phones, and stopped tweaking the OS altogether. All Google has done over the years is remove useful features and try and shove AI down people's throats. I'm now looking at options to degoogle my phone, and I'm not particularly fond of buying any flagship phone should this one die.