To be fair, "better than Samsung's" is about the lowest bar you could possibly set

I own my first Samsung, and software-wise, I enjoy it greatly. The only thing I don't like is the level of bloatware and Samsung-specific apps, and the need to register for Samsung Pay just to be able to disable the bottom swipe-bar on the UI.

The fact that I bought a $850 phone that GSMArena said was dual-sim, only to find out it is single-sim, pissed me off.

To be fair, their OS actually isn't that bad once they dropped touchwiz 1.0. its been great the past few years since the S8

The article is clickbait, I think. While there is a vocal subset of OnePlus users that dislike the change, their own poll they cited says approximately 60% of users approve or were taking a "wait and see" approach as of 8 months ago.

Everything is subjective. The users who are voting now are not same people as the users who bought first models.

I have OnePlus3 as my main phone and I am still quite happily using it. However, as the manufacturer has changed their target audience, my next phone is not going to be oneplus.

Sad thing, it is pretty hard to find a decent phone which does not have crap pre-installed.

> The users who are voting now

Except no one is voting "now", they voted nine months ago and now this post is making an entire article centered around that vote.

I probably wasn't clear. By "now" i mean past few years. I personally feel that the article was speaking from old userbase's perspective.