To mitigate some of this (and also plug FOSS) you can get a PinePhone and install a community-driven OS with perpetual updates planned for long term service. The specs aren’t as top end as the Pixel but if you’re just looking for a midline smartphone I think it’s an excellent choice.

gonna need proof of “China masacered[sic] the Uigurs[sic]” that doesn’t cite the far-right extremist Falun Gong cult, its “news” site The Epoch Times, or its Western mouthpiece, fundamentalist evangelical Christian pastor Adrian Zenz.