I got a Pixel C for my mom when I got my launch Pixel in 2016 and have been extremely disappointed in the lack of application and feature parity on the C, despi

I got a Pixel C for my mom when I got my launch Pixel in 2016 and have been extremely disappointed in the lack of application and feature parity on the C, despite being on 8.1. Luckily, I can just switch it over to an open project like Lineage OS (limited to 14.1/Android 7.1) or one of the many on XDA, but this isn't a choice for all hardware. Because I've had this happen before, the capability to put my own choice of OS on the device just happened to inform my decision to purchase it.