[somerandomqaguy]

They still have a fairly clean Android. Samsung's still have Bixby and the Samsung store, and their firmware I find to be aggravating, as Samsung phones will install carrier specific apps without any option to remove them.

And a used Pixel can be had rather inexpensively due steep depreciation of Android phones.

[opan]

I've had good luck with used OnePlus devices running LineageOS. Affordable with good specs and unlockable bootloader.