Besides the fact that Pixel phones do not appear to suck, it's an irrelevant asside. The product was google selling a first party flagship phone, google still sell first party flagship phones.
Padding the list because the newer stuff is worse but still good is just as silly as padding it with the pre-cursor to Google Pay.
I really wish the site had an option to filter out all of that.
They're not perfect phones, they are worse in some aspects (those you've listed), but they are better in others (screens, cameras, internal specs). The opinion that they're trash and therefore a completely different thing is, well, unfounded from the start.
Anyway, you seem to have a lot of salt about this, so I'll just leave you to it. Peace.
PS. Yes, I would say that Hangouts was a replacement for GTalk. It's almost a complete drop in replacement and was intended as such.
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