My iphone finally crapped out completely and I need to get a new phone but I really don't want another iphone, I really developed a burning hatred of apple over 7 years with this damn phone. I really don't know much about phones though so I'm looking for suggestions, mostly I just use my phone for text, calls, and youtube so I'm not too concerned about specs or cameras and such.
The new Nokia phones (X10 and x20) are pretty good midrangers. Stock android, no bloat, 5G, pretty nice.
If you want a "flagship/high end" experience, the cheapest phones that will get you that is the Samsung Galaxy S20FE, or the S21FE coming in January next year. Or if you are prepared to spend a lot you can get the latest Samsung S21 flagship models. I just think they're way too expensive.
I'd advise against the new Pixel 6 as I've heard they have bad battery life and overheating/thermal throttling.
The Pixel 6 has great battery life, it only drains fast when you use 5g a lot. Which only happens in the canned tests tech reviewers do where they do absurd things like stream 8k video over 5g for hours at a time.