I feel you. I had a particularly bad experience with Samsung devices around 2013; used to progressively get slower and slower. This was not just on my Samsung

I feel you. I had a particularly bad experience with Samsung devices around 2013; used to progressively get slower and slower. This was not just on my Samsung device, but my friends Samsung devices as well. They have probably improved since then, but I swore never to try Samsung again. Samsung's custom apps for most things were also annoying. Pixel devices might give you a stick Android experience. If you go to play store and search for apps distributed directly by Google, you can find stock interpretations of a lot of things. There used to be an Android One¹ program, where phone manufacturers ship the stock Android. I don't know if they stopped that program, since most phones in the linked website are outdated models. I have a couple of Android One Nokia devices lying around. Nothing flagshippy, just no-frills regular Android phones. ¹ https://www.android.com/intl/en_in/one/ https://www.android.com/intl/en_in/one/