“Buying Google products” is never a better option.

Why? It's not like any of them is completely open-source hardware, so why bother?

Pixels have decent hardware and have an open-bootloader. I'm fairly sure your desktop is not better/worse than that either.

Maybe, but I think that's a conclusion for an individual to reach rather than a piece of information to help them decide.

I like buying used. I feel better about that. Maybe that is misguided.