I agree, I was a Xiaomi fanboy “because once they discontinue updates i can unlock and install a custom rom” but since they started to launch a new phone twice a month, there aren’t enough hobbyists to support all of them. For my Xiaomi the custom ROMs were all outdated on XDA, and everything was a mess on telegram. I installed a custom rom and it bricked my modem, the maintainer was a teenager that in order to have a longer e-penis was compiling ROMs for phones that he didn’t own - “if it compiles it ships” - then if it boot looped, “sorry wait a couple of weeks until i find another stolen RDP server for next version”

Got a pixel and it’s night and day