the issue ends up being that a lot of people that end up buying galaxy phones use less than 20% of the features b/c most of them are upsold on shit by the people in the phone stores
i havent had a galaxy since the s2 iirc, but when samsung stopped unlocking the bootloaders so that you could put custom roms on it, and remove all that bloat, i went to google and havent looked back.
i say that to say, a lot of people are just gonna upgrade from previous notes b/c they feel that's the natural progression in their phone purchasing, so they will pay $1000 for the phone, use less than 20% of the features when in reality, they can spend $700-$850 on a phone with similar specs and still use less than 20% of the features lol
In that case why get a Google pixel when u can get a $200 phone and still not use 20% of the features?
That logic can be applied to anything.
At the end of the day, the best phone on the market is the note