I'm in the same boat as you with my Nexus 5. I was excited for the Pixel but at $1,000 CAD for the 32GB that does nothing particularly special I cancelled my pre-order.

What my current plan of action is to find something of last-gen and ride it out for another year. I'm okay spending $300-$400 on something that I'll probably flash a custom ROM into and recycle in a year's time when another round of flagships are announced. Unless there's some segment of the market that's eating the Pixel up the general reception I've been seeing hopefully clues Google into what people were looking for (Nexus iteration)