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While anecdotal, my family, friends, and co-workers have consistently seen them fail due to an unrecoverable software issue within 2-3 years. Extended support means very little when one expects failure within current support. Providing that support is cheap marketing.
I got mine around release, which means it's 3 years 2 months, no issues so far.
Coincidentally, that's the almost exactly the longest life we had in our family. Then, one day my wife performed an update which immediately killed the screen. My Pixel failure was far more frustrating: After a system update I learned that if the screen wasn't clean enough on post-update reboot, Google disabled multi-touch forever.
Consider that an S23 FE (one model behind the flagship and with lesser CPU) is 70-75% the cost of a Pixel 9. The only differences that most users would notice is: The Samsung has a telephoto and Google an ultrawide; The Samsung won't unexpectedly die due to a software issue.
I'll never buy a Samsung again absolutely irritating phones. I've had 2 nearly flawless pixel phones. Even if this doesn't last 5 years, I'm not going back to endless bloatware programs that enshitify the Samsung. If I leave pixel it would be for something like fairphone.
Samsung does indeed have a bunch of bloat. I think we've both made well-informed and reasoned choices, picked our poison. We likely share core ideology because we both would like to choose a fairphone.
My two year old Pixel 7 still feels like on day 1, and before that my Galaxy S8 worked flawlessly for 4 years (I just broke the display but it still worked fine when I replaced it with the pixel)
My wife and I'd Pixels were rock solid until one day a Google update came along and killed them with an unrecoverable loss of critical functionality. The only way I'd recommend one of these is if one heavily values having the newest thing for cheap, or for the wide angle camera.
I like Pixels cause of the great custom rom/alternative os support
If Google's not the final say in driver QA then I think it's fantastic. But, the last phone that I've rooted was an S5. I don't know what's up today.