And be out of support after 2 years? No thank you. Xperia is overpriced and Sony dropping its expensive phones from support left and right. After 10+ years with Android vendors should've put in the work to support their handsets in a streamlined fashion at least with security/OS core level updates relatively effortlessly. They didn't, Sony sure didn't. Apple is the only vendor with decent support, sadly.

All the current Xperia phones (even the "compact") are much larger than the 5/SE form factor unfortunately.

The cost of switching ecosystems is too high for most of us. Loss of iMessage alone is a non starter for me personally.