I've been a Motorola customer for many years. Their other phones were lovely minimal and affordable tools with an almost pure Android experience. They had "Moto

I've been a Motorola customer for many years. Their other phones were lovely minimal and affordable tools with an almost pure Android experience. They had "Moto gestures" where you chop to turn on the light or twist to open the camera, and that's about it. This bloatware is unusual. Last year's Motorola Thinkphone was originally a $700 business-oriented 5G flagship alternative, it's now down to $400 and an awesome phone. It takes a minute to uninstall the extra Microsoft apps if you don't want them, (I still use Outlook, Excel, and Onedrive for work, so I left those, dumped the rest especially including LinkedIn) but that's easy. What is normal and disappointing from Motorola is their terrible update policy. The budget phones only get 2 years of security updates and no Android updates. I did just give up on my 5 year old Moto G from 2018, it went without updates for ~4 years. Fortunately the Thinkphone gets security updates through January 2027.