I have had the Google Pixel 8, as recommended to me by a somewhat deranged AI, for a week now, so here's my brief review (coming from a Sony Xperia 10 V):

• The processor (or extra RAM) is very good by my low standards: I almost never experience stuttering, whilst I did before in some circumstances.
• GNSS performance is excellent: <10 seconds to a fix reliably even indoors.
• The display is nice but nothing special, except for the very rounded corners (and large top navbar due to camera placement), which are bad.
• The WiFi hardware is on paper very nice, though my access point isn't good enough to use it fully. I was going to complain about it not seeming to do make-before-break network switches, but apparently this is only applied to automatic network switches. For unclear reasons, the 10 V cripples its already outdated 802.11ac wireless hardware with a single antenna, so the Pixel is a big step up for me.
• It has USB-C display output, which is... fun, briefly?
• I would prefer a narrower screen, but apparently nobody else would, and this is already one of the smallest good phones on the market.
• The haptic feedback is excellently well-defined.
• I can't speak to the AI software features because I am on LineageOS. Support for it is generally good on Google devices (though this may change, as AOSP no longer ships device trees for them).
• The cameras are nice. Google Camera's zoom is competitive with my old phone's dedicated telephoto lens, and an autofocusing ultrawide is a good change. I don't know what the laser autofocus sensor is doing, though, and the software is sometimes overly aggressive in switching to macro.
• The speakers are weirdly overbuilt and very loud at maximum volume.
• I haven't noticed any modem stability issues as some have complained about, but I also haven't been working it very hard. I run it dual-SIM on Three and EE MVNOs.
• Battery life is weird. Most of the time it seems quite good, but when I'm not looking at it it seems to go down significantly sometimes. Perhaps this is down to modem quirkiness (the phone's internal reporting suggests this), or background jobs from my apps hitting it badly.