[thedjpetersen]

Wouldn't the best strategy be to buy a cheap Chinese phone and install stock Android?

[arnaudsm]

That's what I did recently. Got a cheap Xiaomi ($120 used) with a 120hz OLED display and a mid-range CPU and flashed PixelExperience on it: it feels like a $800 Pixel phone.

[freedomben]

Interesting! I hadn't heard of it, but this looks like a neat project: https://get.pixelexperience.org/