If you're switching soon, here's a tip you might not hear: it's pretty important to make sure you get a Snapdragon chip right now. Other chips like the ones in Pixels are having issues that won't be solved until driver updates roll out next year at the earliest. When this is fixed, supporting Snapdragon's monopoly won't be my advice anymore, but it is for now.

One more thing you might not hear about - even a cheap phone can do video output over USB but a lot of phones block video output for no reason. If you make sure your phone has video output over USB, you can plug it into one of those docks with HDMI and a USB keyboard+mouse to use it like a computer. Might be worth checking that on whatever phone you buy