I got the 5 and almost immediately returned it. The 4a is just the best spend money on a cell phone for my needs. This is coming from someone who's owned every Google phone since the G1.
That means only Google phones, and Google has been known to change their mind randomly. Can you rely on them having a decent mid range phone the next time you need a new phone? They could just go back to $1300 flagships by then.
This replaced my Pixel (1) XL. Screen size is effectively the same while the overall size is much smaller. Better performance, keeps the 3.5mm audio, and cheap enough (even here in AU) to not engender much hand-wringing before or after purchase.
I don't drop my phones, or throw them into bags of sharp things - and always have a soft rubber case anyway - so screen scratches aren't my problem. Most of my calls are via a bluetooth headset. I don't care about 1 or 2mm delta on thickness. While Australia will embrace 5G in urban areas quickly, I spend most of my time 20km away from the nearest 3G antenna, so that feature's mostly irrelevant for me.
• unlockable bootloader, rootable
• headphone jack
• > 6.2" screenhttps://store.google.com/product/pixel_4a_5g
It has a 6.2" screen, which is not > 6.2", but close enough. It also retains the Pixel 4a's headphone jack, and is rootable and has an unlockable bootloader like all Pixels.