This is nice and all, but bigger issue is when will Android phones reach Android 11? Has fragmentation gotten better? Do most phone manufacturers support upgrading to major versions of Android (it does not seem to be in their interest)?
If I can, I will buy another Android One phone. There is an horror story about an Android One Xiaomi phone, but Nokia delivered the promise with the 6.1, according to my experience
Which one? I had a Xiaomi Mi A1 and nowadays I have a A2, both are fine Android One phones that still receives updates (in the case of A1, only security ones, but the A2 received a Android 10 update).
Yeah, Xiaomi may take a while to update their phones in Android One program, but otherwise it is fine.
They had to stop 3 or 4 times the Android 10 deployment because of bugs and issues found by users after updating on their phones.
Good to know that it was an isolated case
The real secret is to buy one of the devices the real core Lineage developers maintain because they will keep those security patches and major release updates coming to you for free that these billion dollar corporations couldn't be bothered to do.
If the entire Android ecosystem wasn't a disgusting exploitation machine meant to produce more rare earth metal waste than naval warfare by forcibly obsoleting devices every 2 years everyone would be better off. Every company could be sponsoring free software devs to support their phones in something like Lineage in perpetuity while paying a fraction what they do for their large internal dev teams to do it. But the perverse incentives mean they don't want to update phones, which also means making it hard to support their device in a real operating system like Lineage is in their interest.