1. I had a flagship from Samsung. It’s google’s Estate that is buggy as hell.

2. I’m in the UK. Forget it. We have good laws. Law should be a last resort but would have to be first call to get anything useful out.

3. And the 9,000,000 other places it does the same thing.

Honestly the last straw was when I was sitting down having a shit and it asked me to rate the public toilet and suggested taking a photo. So I did and for 6 months there was a picture of my excrement and a review on the Internet.

And now I'm wiping coffee off my monitor :-D

Except the update issue I always tell people the opposite, never ever buy a flagship. Usually they have bad screens (in terms of you always only see flagships breaking on a 1m fall) the added software usually is a mess compared to original Android software, should it break or decrease in efficiency you don't throw away something that was 800$.

There are a few good flagships I've seen. (namely most of Huawei) but there are also bad examples like all of Samsung.

If you ever had or know someone who had a J series you can easily tell those are less prown to issues and breaking compared to the S series.

My Google Pixel 1 sometimes crashes from overheating without any heavy program or weather happens. My Nexus 6P had the common issue of shutting down with 15-20% battery estimated (arguably not a crash but same UX).