I’m not buying their devices after Nexus 5X and 6P disaster. Even despite my own devices did not boot loop. I mean buying them new and using them as my primary phone. Buying a used Pixel for $50, yeah, I might. So if it’ll face some weird hardware issue, I’m not going to be disappointed. I had zero issues (hardware-wise) with so many years of iPhones.
These days all that looks very depressing. The new redesign from Apple, and now this. I was actually thinking about maybe I’d like to give Pixels another chance. If buying used, I can play that lottery after all. But having no custom ROM option basically leaves me as miserable as with Apple: either take it as it is or leave.