Personally, I'm more effed by the borders and the squigly icon shapes of your launcher.
But, you can use a 3rd party icon pack like Material You or Material You dark/light icon pack. Or maybe use Icon Pack Studio to create a custom icon pack for your phone.
The app is limited for TV which limits the reach. Plus, I do not download apps outside of fdroid for the most part.
This is a 3rd party youtube client. Did it not stop working when you did not update the app for almost a whole month?
Fortunately, its an app for TVs. Still, sometimes you have to be extra careful when downloading 3rd party apps. Especially, those which do not exist on fdroid.
E2E encryption is useless if you don't control the encryption method and storage.
Doing this when even apple does not handover such data is stupid on Google.
Glass costs more. So reviewers often list plastic as a con. Plus, it can be get scratched. You get ceramic coating on the black and violet variants back panel with glass.
The sandstorm white variant uses fiberglass on its back. But, the frame and camera deco use Micro-arc Oxidation (MAO) which should be durable.
Yeah, welcome verified apps on PC.
Any particular reason NFC payment apps don't work? Atleast some should work with MicroG.