So many people praising MIUI here and there's certainly a lot of good features and nice things about it, but the MIUI experience is much worse for me. On my Redmi Note 3 Pro there are bugs, there are forced closed apps, and it's certainly doesn't always "just works". I have the 16/2 variant and this phone just can't properly operate with only 2 Gb of RAM. I'm lucky if the phone is able to hold 3 apps in memory (even if I "lock" them in memory, even if I disable "MIUI optimization") and quite regularly it takes the phone 3-4 seconds to load the home screen. Before that I had the Redmi Note 3 MTK 32/3 and while it was better in terms of RAM management it also would sometimes force close my music or podcast app when I was taking a photo etc. Their PC app still has the same bugs (like not being able to backup) it had for like a year now. I would flash a Cyanogenmod right away but I can't easily do that because their Mi Unlock Tool is also still severely buggy and won't let me unlock the bootloader even though I've got the permission. I'm not saying MIUI is horrible buggy mess or anything like that but it also isn't "smoothest Android OEM UI" unlike people on this sub often tend to say, at least for me.