Here's some more anecdata to offset yours... I'm using an 11 year old Motorola Defy daily, using the original battery which still lasts for 3 days. It is used

Here's some more anecdata to offset yours... I'm using an 11 year old Motorola Defy daily, using the original battery which still lasts for 3 days. It is used as a netcast player (using dSub which connects to the Airsonic server under the stairs), messaging client (mostly Telegram, Conversations (XMPP client) as backup) and phone. It is waterproof, shockproof and with its 3.7" screen small enough to fit in the breast pocket of most shirts. I never had a Pixel so I can not comment on their reliability. We have never had to return any of our devices... except for the one iOS device we had in the house when my daughter got an iPad from school - it just died and needed to be replaced. Comparing that device to the host of Android devices (all running AOSP derived distributions) we use showed just how many restrictions iOS puts on the user so we did not miss it when she had to leave it back. The school obviously felt the same since they ditched the iPads for Chromebooks. My daily phone is a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 from 2019, running LineageOS. Next to that I use the mentioned Motorola Defy from 2011, a Samsung Galaxy Tab III (10.1") from 2013 and a Teclast x80 Pro from 2016. I used to use a Samsung Galaxy SIIIneo from 2014 but that one suffered a broken screen when it fell from the roof while installing solar panels. The thing still works but I actually prefer the Motorola Defy over it due to its more compact size. Notice the age of these devices, they're "ancient" by most measures but perfectly useable.