After OnePlus decided to stop publishing factory images, I decided to stop buying their phones. It's a real shame, because they really do make some great stuff and prices are quite reasonable generally speaking. I used to buy a new OnePlus phone nearly every year. The OnePlus 6 was one of my favorite phones of all time.
I agree the OP6 is great (my girlfriend is still using hers), but I was still on my OP 3 like a year ago, until future ROM updates were deemed impossible thanks to Qualcomm binary blobs.
It's a real shame it's all over now. The OP 9 Pro was the last OnePlus phone made in their old way (or close to it) - not too expensive, well built, close to stock ROM, easy to reflash, decently repairable. Hopefully it lasts me as long as the 3 did because currently I don't see anything else like that on the market.
https://oxygenupdater.com/article/438/
Yes, I am still on my beloved OnePlus 6 running Lineage and had been looking around for a used 7 or 8 for 5G capability (I'm a bit sketched out by the overall throttling hoopla of 9th gen). Perhaps it's time to expand the search beyond OnePlus.
Alas, it's also annoying that some dumb banks (I'm looking at you ING Poland) consider rooted device as "insecure" but thay have no problem if I open a bank page using admin/root account on the computer)
Hmm, funnily enough at least a few years ago German Ing-Diba didn't care about rooted phones. I switched banks at some point though, so I have no idea whether that's still true.
As for ING - about 4-5 years ago it was possible to spoof the check but about 3 years ago they went full bonkers and if you didn't get the app from playstore (so for example aurora) it refused to launch...
Installing crDroid on my OnePlus 9 Pro took half an hour, another half to install Magisk Delta with a few modules. The universal dark mode alone (Xposed module "DarQ") is worth the effort, but also the ability to clone apps, have proper clipboard sync, make full-system backups and customise the look and functions of my OS to a currently unparalleled degree.
The only compromise is I can't seem to be able to do NFC card payments (send or receive), one of my 4 banking apps needs a custom patch every few months to start working and a friend tells me the McDonald's app doesn't work.