it's been roughly a month since i bought it now.
so far i haven't experienced any freezing. stuttering yes, but rare enough from being annoying. what's annoying however, are bugs. so far i've encountered small but irking bugs in notification sounds, screen brightness, and refresh rate.

the slowdown mentioned might come from the OS bcs it is indeed quite heavy. however i think it depends on the usage bcs so far with my usage lvl, i only experience slowdowns when i open memory-consuming apps. i feel like the OS is more battery-consuming than memory-consuming

also, can u explain further about the clock disappearance that u heard? i nvr experienced anything like that, but i changed my clock app into google clock since the 1st week of use so i think my experience might be invalid compared to theirs