[ahtaarra]

I think the biggest deal-breaker for me is that they chose to go with /e/OS which is not something I enjoyed after trying it briefly since the skin over AOSP to me seemed ugly and bloated and change for the sake of it.

I would like to try out the recent Zefones and the nothing phone also seems good. But at the moment I have my Pixel 6a which is serving me well enough.

[COGlory]

There's no skin on /e/OS, it is just a fork of LineageOS with a few Google/telemetry things removed, MicroG integrated, and a handful of apps/services preinstalled.

Are you talking about the default launcher? You can download dozens of different launchers on their app store, and install them with one click. Including Trebuchet, which is the default launcher on LineageOS, which is, at this point, de facto AOSP.

[TT-392]

They support /e/OS, but it comes with normal android out of the box.