Nothing burger.

Same. Last time I actually saw one on the wild in the US was 2018. I’ve actually seen more One Plus phones, which doesn’t exactly surprise me for some reason.

I’ve grown to hate the power button sensor on Moto’s because on many cases the cutout for the button is deep. Making it a pain in the ass to get good contact with the button for the sensor to read properly. Literally never have gotten it to read successfully on the first try since I’ve owned the phone with the case I use.

Yes, it’s technically a case problem, but it shouldn’t be on the friggin power button to begin with imo.

Correct.

I’m kinda the opposite. Wide phones always gave me hand cramps but that’s likely because I have smaller sized hands I guess.

I don’t use gesture navigation but in my experience, reducing the “Window Animation” or the “Transition Animation” speed (in developer settings) can greatly improve this. YMMV.

I’m curious, what’s the recourse here when this happens? Does Google make it right somehow when their own software bricks their own devices?

Or is just “Oops, our bad. Just buy a new one, best of luck!!”?

Does reflashing a ROM fix it? (aside from some data loss, of course)