I still love my Pixel 6 and I am thinking of grabbing a used Pixel 8 to run GrapheneOS.
I am not one to chase the latest benchmarks. Any phone made in the past five years or so is perfectly capable once you take the bloat out.
Edit: I found a great deal on a Pixel 10 and have ordered it.
that’s unfortunately not what my experience has been, but then i also have like 10 apps with constant background services that i don’t want to live without… That said, the battery life is still perfectly fine IMO.