I'm reading this now on a Pixel 2XL. It runs reasonably well, though I've currently got a few too many apps running in the background crapping it up. It's asinine that Google dropped support for this model so quickly, and I really have no faith in them at all anymore. 7 years is what it should have always been.

Early pixel models comes with unlimited google photos feature etc. I think maintaining is more of a lost revenue to google than patching cost. If customos devs can do it on donation so can google. Probably a reason for google to obselete them and a reason for us to keep alive and running it as long as possible.

I still see few custom roms spoofing as early pixel models to enable unlimited google photos.