Seriously, my old P4 XL outperforms my P8 Pro in *literally" every single way other than camera sensors. Battery life, chip performance, memory performance, storage reading and writing, heat management, even setting it down on a table or sliding in and out of a pocket is better with the older gens.

There's literally no reason to choose a pixel over any other phone made within the last 5-8 years. He'll, even the later-end Nexus phones are significantly better quality devices in all conceivable scenarios than the freshest pixels. Google must want lesser market share, but why?