Same boat as you - only buying notch-free, de-googlable phones.

I'm still happy with my POCO F2 Pro, but if I were to lose it right now I think I would import a Mi Mix 4. Under-display selfie camera is a little downgrade from the pop-up one, but the specs are better and I don't take that many selfies anyway.

The same guy who ported the CrDroid ROM to the F2 Pro also did it for the Mix 4, so I'd be pretty confident of successfully de-googling it.

On the same boat with oneplus 7 pro. Every phone I see with a hole on the screen looks like a downgrade to me. Battery life went very bad unfortunately after so many years.

I've been lucky with the battery life for some reason. Still usually lasts through the day for me, even after 3 years.

I think OnePlus only charges like $20 to replace it...

thanks for the tip. I'll have it replaced cause other than battery life i have zero complaints with this phone. I was even worried originally because the front camera is a "moving part" but even that seems to have outlasted my expectations.

The pop-up camera is known to be very reliable. Unfortunate that they put so much work into it and abandoned it.