I’ve been on US Mobile for a few years after having issues with Verizon no longer delivering texts for a week+ and haven’t had any problems, but I don’t do any of their promotions. I just signed up for one the cheaper plans and have kept it since. They’re an MVNO, but if you’re on their Verizon network, they somehow have the same network priority as prepaid Verizon phones (the pay-per-month, cancel anytime kind) instead of lower priority like on the T-Mobile one and what most other MVNOs have.

A Pixel is good if they want to install GrapheneOS specifically, since that’s still currently the only phone line they support. Though they have a secret unannounced hardware partnership coming up. If not though, Pixels are objectively worse in hardware specs (except the cameras) than almost any other Android phone at similar prices. Every single model has heat dispersion and battery issues, no matter how many times /r/GooglePixel tries to convince people “it’s fixed this time!” I had them from the 4a up through the 8, with the 4a being the only one I was actually happy with before I stopped buying them. They just have the US market by the balls. So something from like the OnePlus R series would be good too and most models have compatibility with LineageOS at the least, if not other projects.