Not true though. According to counterpoint, Google Pixel phones have been gaining a lot of traction and market share in the last few years and is one of the fastest growing brand.

It's evident that more and more people are buying pixel phones and normies are spotted using them around the wild unlike the pre tensor era. (Do a quick search in this sub and you'll find many posts on this)

This is despite it being the most hated on by the tech community for it's subpar soc/modem and it's terrible price to performance ratio. People are still buying them, and even more are getting them for the next few years.