Pixel 7 pro phones latest camera was the biggest disappointment for me. I usually have been happy with pixels but it has trouble focusing on infinity, and the image stabilization on the 5x zoom lens is so jumpy it's worse than nothing at all. I thought about trying to get it warrantied or something but was already sick of spending hours at the Verizon store trying to get my trade-in credit.
And to get the full advertised resolution (which you have to enable in the photo toggles) you have to tolerate a delayed shutter button and a "long exposure" for it to do the computational photography or something. So it's useless to expect full resolution with kids or action.
The Pixel 7 Pro was the worst phone I've ever owned. The battery was terrible, the camera was terrible, sometimes it just wouldn't boot up, everything about it was awful. I swore an oath that I wouldn't buy a Pixel phone ever again.
I've heard that the Pixel 8 was better, but I'll never know.
Fellow P 7 Pro owner here: yeah the 8 Pro is better. Still wish I'd got something else, but at least audio through the USB-C port doesn't have a buzzing caused by the clock on the chip.
In all fairness, I did recently take a 30x zoom video of an animal using the pixel, and it got compliments specifically on the zoom capability of the phone when I shared it to the people who had been there at the time.
The camera (and/or the camera software) was awful. There was no way to get a good photo out of it, even with 3rd party apps. And so many cameras now won't allow 3rd party apps access to the full data either, so you are stuck with the junk-ridden garbage that comes with the phone.
I dumped a decade of android after the pixel 6 and 7 due to the pathetic camera. It couldn’t take an picture of a flat piece of paper without distortion!
And to get the full advertised resolution (which you have to enable in the photo toggles) you have to tolerate a delayed shutter button and a "long exposure" for it to do the computational photography or something. So it's useless to expect full resolution with kids or action.