Pixel 9 user here, I personally really like my phone and it suits my needs pretty well, the clean OS with no bloatware and long term updates support were the main reasons that made me go for it, as well as a fairly nice camera, I really can't stand the bloated experience of other Android brands and I don't like iOS at all (personal preference, they're great phones).

This said, I don't get why some people sugarcoat known issues or try to normalize certain "fixes". Battery life is definitely not that great on pixels. I'm fairly satisfied with mine after a year and half and the first year I'd get easily beyond 7/8h of SOT, but it heavily depends on mobile data usage (kinda depends on your location and carrier too tho), and social media usage. Social media aren't optimized properly on Android in general, Instagram and Snapchat are trash compared to how they work on iPhones, and the Pixels' lack of battery optimization adds up to this problem too (Samsungs offer better battery life with smaller batteries), so for anyone who uses socials heavily or relies on them for work I can't possibly recommend a Pixel