Don't really agree. I've had a Nexus 5 for years and it's been great. I think the old Google phones were the best kept secret (not really secret) out there.

Don't really agree. I've had a Nexus 5 for years and it's been great. I think the old Google phones were the best kept secret (not really secret) out there. They came packaged with vanilla Android which is perfectly usable and the designs were usually very reserved and tasteful in my opinion. Even though you can't get the simple Google phones any more, any Android device still has the "feature" that you can use it as a general purpose computer and not something that you are only permitted to use insofar as the manufacturer approves.