Lackluster new phone except for the awesome screen, top notch specs, nice battery life, comfortable UI close to stock Android, zero lag in the UI (ahem, Samsung

Lackluster new phone except for the awesome screen, top notch specs, nice battery life, comfortable UI close to stock Android, zero lag in the UI (ahem, Samsung, are you listening?), lightning fast fingerprint reader at a comfortable position at the front (still there, Samsung?), great camera (best mobile camera according to dxomark), rather handy "squeezable" option (customizable, as opposed to e.g. Bixby button), best sound in any smartphone hands down, impressive noise-cancelling in-ear headphones included (this comes from an owner of the Bose QC25's), and quick charge 3. But yeah, it has bezels and now the latest fad is bezelless (making phones more prone to break on falls and to accidentally touching the screen if you grab them incorrectly). Plus it's not Samsung and they don't have money to put all the tremendously biased smartphone press in their favor. So it is automatically labelled as lackluster, like everything HTC has made for the last 5 years or so, including fantastic and innovative phones like the M7, M8 and 10. Meanwhile, others make phones that freaking explode and still get undivided praise by the press.