S23 ultra here

You can totally remap it

You can use another keyboard

You have to look very hard to find the AI (the only use i have for it is delete some objects from a photo and that takes a few tries)

You can literally solve everything in a few minutes

What if I don't want to deal with these problems in the first place

They're not problems. It's a customizable device to this extent, and you have preferences, so just change the settings. The alternative is that you cannot do anything about it.

Buy another phone?

Buy an iPhone and you don't have to ever wonder if you CAN change something

Does this comment mean to say that you can change anything or that you can't? IIRC there are quite a few things locked down on an iPhone that require you to jailbreak it if you want to customize it, but I haven't been in the iPhone space for a long time now so please forgive my naivety.

Yes, that's what i meant.

"With an Android if you have a shitty "feature" usually you can just change it"

I have a samsung and everything is custom, nothing but the setting menu is Samsung at this point on my phone.

And my choice was dictated only by the hardware in the Android ecosystem (i wanted the S pen)

On an iPhone you can customize very little, the homepage alone would make me furious.

Yup. Don’t like siri? Go kick rocks.

You can disable Siri entirely, as far as the voice interface.

You have to enable Siri for carplay, which is really obnoxious.

Glad to know they didn't remove the customizable button then :) I plan on squeezing as much life out of my Note 10 as I can but I know its number will come soon enough.

Two other data points: I had the note 9, and the button wasn't customizable (you could disable the app and tweak some other things to keep the button from doing anything, but you couldn't remap it, that was new in the note 10.) And having upgraded to the S24 ultra... there's no button any more, just power + volume. (As shipped, the power button does some bixby nonsense, but it's a couple of clicks to make it do power again, and camera on double-click, like it did on all of the previous models.)

S24 doesn't have the bixby button at all.

My Note 9 screen just broke.... :(

I want a flagship with headphone jack please.

Samsung's skin for android is actually incredibly customizable (to the point you can individually pick color for each UI element separately), as well as including quite a few QoL upgrades that are missing on stock android.

But ye, you have to deal with some sub-optimal 'out-of-the-box' experience and privacy isn't really there (though let's be honest, on stock android google also look at your hands constantly)