Interesting. Can I ask if you use Apple's cloud services? If so, I understand. I don't use those, even on Apple devices, so to me, the whole setup is similarly annoying on both platforms with maybe a very slight edge towards the iPhone because it has most things I need out of the box. Other than that, I really don't think I miss anything on the "basic stuff" front on my Pixel compared to my iPhone (I use them both daily, with the former being my personal phone and the latter the job-issued one).

I've been doing the dual-driving iPhones and Android devices for a long time and times were definitely worse, in my opinion. The last thing I remember really annoying me on the regular was the lack of AirDrop but with alternatives like LocalSend and KDE connect, that's fixed as well.