It’ll be used once and then live in a drawer forever

The sad thing is that the Pixel 9 is a fairly decent phone - if you stripped all the crap off of it. However, like any other consumer device nowadays, I absolutely loathe the Android out-of-box experience. They shove so much crap in your face and default everything to Google software - with no ability to delete the default apps - that it’s almost too much work to get it exactly how you want.

For me, all new Android phones get the GrapheneOS experience - with only the apps I want (link to collection). Google, Apple, Samsung, etc., can take their defaults and shovel it.

If it wasn’t for third party operating systems on Android and open source apps, I’d go back to a flip phone. That’s not just me being angry at the direction consumer tech is going. That’s an honest opinion on devices that just aren’t interesting to me any longer.