It may be best to buy an easily unlockable phone like a Pixel and then flash your own ROM to get it just as you'd want it.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Motorola, Sony, and Pixel offer the closest to stock Android out of the box.
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Asus ZenFone appears to have an option during first-time-setup to stick with stock android or add the Asus optimizations.
If you want pure android, then a Pixel phone, but if you want to degoogle, no...
Else you can find very interesting powerful phone like PoCo F4 for instance and replace the ROM with the dozen ones available, check XDA.
Know that when you unlock bootloader/replace ROM, you will most likely lose the ability to pay with your phone, or play a cat and mouse game with magisk and addon and google Wallet.
If you want pure android, then a Pixel phone, but if you want to degoogle, no…
why? other than "your'e giving money to google just before removing google"
Know that when you unlock bootloader/replace ROM, you will most likely lose the ability to pay with your phone, or play a cat and mouse game with magisk and addon and google Wallet.
I didn't know about this, custom ROMs cannot run these kind of services?