It’s about the battery life and heat output for me. I couldn’t care less about peak performance, but I do care about efficiency. I had a phone (Zenfone 8) with the SD888 (Samsung Foundry like Tensor) and I will say, this was perhaps one of the worst phones I’ve used. I could barely get 3h of screen on time after 1.5 years (while taking care of the battery). My S23 gets double or more the battery life while having a smaller battery. I also care about device aesthetics like the even bezels on the screen. And the ultrasonic fingerprint scanner on the Samsung’s is just leagues ahead of any optical sensor both in terms of speed and accuracy

And that’s not to mention the bad signal issues

That google play HTC m8 was chefs kiss, I also loved the m8 for windows.

Heh, they get 4 years OS (5 total) but the thing is after the new device generation is released, the previous year immediately falls behind in terms of update speed and overall optimization.

Nah. On basically all other OEMs once your phone isn’t the latest and greatest anymore it falls behind in terms of updates, even if it does get updated. The same update may take longer to arrive, maybe a week, maybe a month, who knows? Meanwhile on Pixels and iPhones everybody gets updated on the same day.