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The best reason to buy a Google Pixel phone is still to be able to install GrapheneOS on it to remove the back door control over your data that Google has on most other Android systems.
I switched from Graphene to Calyx. Regardless of your ROM of choice, the sheer volume of custom ROMs available on Pixels is the best feature of them.
If you don't mind me asking, what made you make the switch and what notable differences did you notice?
The final straw was my banking app stopped working on Graphene and I was getting more and more curious about MicroG.
I find Calyx to be a more complete OS with apps generally being more modernised. The search bar in the app page of Graphene for example has always been a bit buggy and most the default apps look like they haven't seen an update since KitKat.
I also found app compatibility seemed better with MicroG than sandboxed Google Play despite the claims that Graphene would always have better compatibility.