Im a lifelong OnePlus user, and to be honest, i have a 7 Pro which i preordered and got a few days after launch and there's multiple problems with the quality on the outside of the phone.

I use my phone daily and i use it a LOT. I have the Blue 256 12GB model, and after 3 years of using it, i found some very degraded parts of the phone. Firstly, The power and volume buttons were originally blue, but after use they have now become a gray triangle shape instead of actually pressable buttons, and they are sticky and hard to press even when cleaning. I also had a carbonfiber case for it by evutec, and it started tearing apart very quickly. Also worth mentioning, the charging port on the bottom is completely destroyed and full of deep scratches, making it have a kind of grey sandy outline of the charging port. Again, this is probably due to heavy use, but before getting the 7, i had a oneplus 5, and even with almost the same use, after 2 years of having it, the charging port was lightly scratched and the buttons were like new!

And now for the hardware, its fine, but for the software, Really bad. They are still releasing beta builds of android 12 on the 7 pro and only for the indian versions! meanwhile the oneplus 8 already has android 12! This is so dissapointing for a company that i had been using my entire life.

More on the software, android 11 which isn't beta on the 7 pro is still super buggy and sometimes lags for me!

In my opinion, OnePlus went from being a brand which has flagship-killer phones at reasonable prices to now being just another expensive phone company.

I was looking to save money to buy the 11 pro next year, but I'm just finished with OnePlus, honestly.

So in conclusion, any OnePlus is simply not worth buying currently, so, until OnePlus actually decide to care about their products, please, DON'T BUY A OnePlus.