I manually updated my Nokia 8 to android Pie and it's absolutely garbage. If I could go back in time, I'd rather place my gentlemanly vegetables in a blender than update.
Not buggy or slow but horribly designed. The new quick settings menu now lacks drop downs, if you want to change WiFi network you need to tap and hold to open the settings app. Connecting to a Bluetooth device requires holding to open the settings app and a further tap to open previously connected devices. They also replaced the strike though on WiFi and Bluetooth toggles for a different colour to show when they are disabled.
The notifications in the top left can only show a max of 2-3 notifications, anymore and it shows one less and a dot. There is no Bluetooth symbol in the top right unless you are connected to a Bluetooth device so you have no idea if Bluetooth is on. This is to avoid having anything appear in the top middle where you might have a notch. But we don't so it's just hiding information from us.
Finally there is the recent apps menu. Whoever designed this needs a slap for completely failing at making a functional menu. Open it and it shows the current app and a sliver of the next app. It only shows a maximum of 1 app and the slivers of the next apps. You also swipe horizontally rather than vertically which is far more uncomfortable and new apps clunk into place rather than scrolling smoothly. So to open anything but the last app requires swiping right multiple times until you get to it or a big swipe right then a swipe left cause you went past the app you want.
Here is an album of the changes I discussed:
http://imgur.com/a/UDI7AOY
Now it's possible that the fish, lizard or sheep people might prefer the new designs. They arguably look cleaner or something. But Google has made these fairly massive changes without a single option for the user to decide whether they want them. Even which better text selection I will be looking into how to upgrade to Oreo.
